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Re: Fetch

I first became aware of the existence of the Internet sometime in the mid eighties I looked at the /etc/hosts file on a Unix box we were using on our yellow coax Ethernet LAN and saw the pre-DNS mappings of a couple of thousand hostnames to IP4 addresses. We were using telnet and FTP software over local TCP/IP then nearly a decade or so before the first webserver and http clients were available.