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Danny Hillis was the third person to register a domain name. He could have registered as many as he wanted, when only two were taken, but “that wouldn’t have been very nice.”

He is holding up his Internet Directory. It’s like the White Pages for those who remember such things. It’s a list of everyone on the Internet. Everyone. It lists their name, physical address, email address and phone number.

It’s not a very thick book, and the alpha sort is just the first half; the second half of the book is the same information sorted by email. Ah, the pre-search engine era. 1982.

“There were only two other Dannys on the Internet then. I knew them both. There was a level of trust that permeated the Internet.” And that trust is built into the protocol of the network.

Danny’s fascinating TED Talk went online today.

“There has ben surprisingly little attention to defending the Internet itself.”

The Internet is vulnerable to the sys admin layer, which presumed trust, not the network layer, which was meant to survive nuclear attack or massive outages at the link layer.

It’s like the financial system; no one understands the emergent properties. The communications links used to be heterogeneous; they couldn’t all break at once. Now TCP/IP is taking over everything. When the U.S. drone made a smooth landing on the Iranian airstrip for capture, it was merely a counterpoint to our worm that destroyed the Iranian uranium enrichment centrifuges. If the Internet went down, the President could do only one thing – launch a nuclear war. Ironically, that is the one network that is completely independent of the Internet. He could not call the Kremlin or order a pizza.

When we heard this at the TED retreat, we suspected others would want to hear this too.

23 responses to “The Trusted Internet Directory”

  1. jurvetson Avatar
    jurvetson

    When Danny flipped the book open, I snapped a shot…
    IMG_8298
    …and was blown away that I could read all of the text. This is a rotated crop from that photo:
    IMG_8298_2

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  2. scleroplex Avatar
    scleroplex

    yes, weird priorities have been emphasised

    and continue to be emphasised – http://www.theverge.com/2013/3/18/4121582/telecoms-oppose-strict...

    vandana shiva warned against monocultures 20 years ago –
    http://www.amazon.com/Monocultures-Mind-Perspectives-Biodiversit...

    and mike hales 10 years before her –
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/scleroplex/4404369367/

    redundancy and heterogeneity are vital in every sphere

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  3. seatonsnet Avatar
    seatonsnet

    Fascinating, like some swami being able to remember past lives. It seems soooooooooooo long ago, and it wasn’t.

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  4. heet_myser Avatar
    heet_myser

    Never underestimate the sensor on the MKII.

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  5. sbove Avatar
    sbove

    [http://www.flickr.com/photos/heet_myser] Hehheh. Indeed. 21+ megapixels full frame captures an insane amount of detail when coupled to top quality optics! I use mine to read the fine print on signs that I can’t resolve with the naked eye all the time 😉

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  6. acscacciap Avatar
    acscacciap

    Fancied !

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  7. js.brain Avatar
    js.brain

    Today, something like 99% of all the words in the dictionary in all languages are already registered as domain names. Regardless if a business exists or not, which is not fun at all.

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  8. Jim Rees Avatar
    Jim Rees

    The directory was printed before the DNS was widely used. Note there are no dots to the right of the "@" sign. The three-letter combinations below the phone number are the "NIC handles" (NIC is Network Information Center). Many of them are the user’s initials, but sometimes there is a digit to disambiguate, so you have DJ, DJJ, and DJ1. My NIC handle was JAR4.

    Jon Postel published his own directory as a series of RFCs. It was a shorter list and I don’t know what the inclusion criteria were. I think it was just anyone who had requested a number from him. I’m in the Jan 1983 edition, RFC820, with my email address JIM@WASHINGTON. But I wish I’d saved my printed copy.

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  9. jurvetson Avatar
    jurvetson

    Thanks for the back story!

    And so it goes. From the BBC today:

    "Global internet slows after ‘biggest attack in history’

    Mr Linford said the attack’s power would be strong enough to take down government internet infrastructure.

    "If you aimed this at Downing Street they would be down instantly," he said. "They would be completely off the internet."

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  10. scleroplex Avatar
    scleroplex

    http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2417142,00.asp

    Could WikiLeaks, Not Spamhaus, Be the Target of Cyber Attacks?
    There’s something very fishy about this whole Cyberbunker situation, and I think it all traces back to WikiLeaks.
    By John C. Dvorak March 27, 2013

    According to reports, there’s a beef between anti-spam operation Spamhaus and Cyberbunker, a Dutch Web host. Spamhaus claims Cyberbunker unleashed a barrage of spambots that is pounding the Internet at an alleged 300GB/s, apparently at enough choke points to slow everything down.

    And by everything I mean everything. All companies are at risk, from smaller operations to bandwidth hogs like Netflix.
    The allegation is that Cyberbunker is sick and tired of being abused by Spamhaus, which apparently blocks Cyberbunker’s users. It assumes anything coming from the IP numbers specific to the domain is a spammer, which is obviously false. But, based on the purported Cyberbunker marketing, one must assume that many customers are indeed spammers.
    I was sold on this bullcrap story until I looked into it.

    Spamhaus says the folks at Cyberbunker are "collaborating" with some Eastern European criminal organizations and the Russian mob to unleash a spambot attack on Spamhaus. Sounds exciting!

    Since Spamhaus is a point of reference for many providers, everything around the world of email and communications has slowed down which in turn slows down other aspects of the Web. It makes sense—except for the lack of any evidence.

    I tried to access Cyberbunker’s site but it took forever to load. It finally cropped up with some ominous logo and a picture of WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange. Ohhh. So this is where the sneaky site is hosted. Funny how that isn’t mentioned in any of the reports.

    Assange’s various stinks with large government organizations, including the United States, changes the story drastically if you ask me.

    Three links sit at the bottom of the page: City Hall Fights Back, Spamhaus Blackmail War, and Swat Team Raids Bunker. All are worth reading—if you have the time to wait for the pages to load. It’s as if Cyberbunker was the one suffering from a denial of service attack.

    Meanwhile, Spamhaus.org loaded as fast as if it were on my local network. What gives? Which operation is actually being attacked and which is doing the attacking?

    There is something very sketchy about this fight and it’s unclear to me which party is on the offensive. But if Cyberbunker is such a huge source of spam, aren’t there legitimate ways to shut it down? It’s been done before. If it turns out that this is really about WikiLeaks rather than spam, then we are being terribly misled by the media.

    So what else is new?

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  11. jurvetson Avatar
    jurvetson

    oh so very strange…. Meanwhile, from my Facebook cross-post, Bob Kaplow writes

    "I worked for DEC when 2 of their systems were part of the core of the internet. You had to know the path from one computer to another to send an email or do anything else.

    Routing, and .com, .edu, .org, et al came along later. Back then my email address was {allegra,decvax,ihnp4,ucbvax}!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-crvax1!kaplow Mine was relatively simple because DEC was part of the internet backbone. many addresses had many more steps inthe path from the core nodes.

    I found a post of mine from 2/86 about the Shuttle (just after Challenger), but have tracked down another high end audio post from 1/86: So far this is the oldest footprint of mine I’ve been able to locate. Here are the links:

    Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
    Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site decwrl.DEC.COM
    Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!bellcore!decvax!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-crvax1!kaplow
    From: kaplow@crvax1.DEC (Reach for the Stars)
    Newsgroups: net.space
    Subject: re: Why the power dive?
    Message-ID:
    Date: Mon, 17-Feb-86 19:33:23 EST
    Article-I.D.: decwrl.1195
    Posted: Mon Feb 17 19:33:23 1986
    Date-Received: Wed, 19-Feb-86 04:01:25 EST
    Sender: daemon@decwrl.DEC.COM
    Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
    Lines: 24

    The shuttle DOES perform its final minute(s) of main engine burn
    pointing down. The size of this down component is quite small compared
    to the downrange component. This intentional downthrust is not, however,
    wasted energy. While its altitude is decreasing slightly, its speed is
    greatly increased to just less than the amount necessary for orbital
    velocity (its easier to go faster downhill than uphill). Then the later
    OMS burns redirect the speed to the desired orbit.

    I beleieve that they want the ET to burn up to prevent the shuttle
    orbital path from getting cluttered up with empty ETs. Ask NORAD how
    much junk in space it is already tracking. Also thing what a chance
    meeting between an orbiter and an ET might do. Now if we had something
    useful to do with all of those ETs…

    Bob Kaplow
    Digital Equipment Corp.
    Arlington Heights, IL

    UUCP: {allegra,decvax,ihnp4,ucbvax}!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-crvax1!kaplow
    ARPA: KAPLOW%CRVAX1.DEC@decwrl.DEC.COM

    * Reach for the Stars *

    And another:

    UUCP: {allegra,decvax,ihnp4,ucbvax}!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-crvax1!kaplow
    ARPA: KAPLOW%C…@decwrl.DEC.COM

    "In SPACE no one can hear them MEOW!"

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  12. jurvetson Avatar
    jurvetson

    Which reminded me that my first email address in 1985 was e.estonia@macbeth.stanford.edu

    I did not plan this, but that let me meet all the other Estonians at Stanford at the time. =)

    So I just searched "Macbeth" on my Mac, and I did not get a single Shakespeare hit, but I did find this IP address ghost in the machine… (and I remember PORTIA, FORSYTHE and LEAR as I entered the Ph.D program):

    % Type "show ?" for a list of subcommands
    tip-cerasa>show hosts

    Default domain is STANFORD.EDU
    Name/address lookup uses domain service
    Name servers are 36.21.0.20, 36.56.0.151, 36.8.0.47

    Host Flags Age Port Address(es)
    GSB-HOW.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 0 – 36.67.0.210 36.19.0.210
    SHASTA.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 0 – 36.14.0.1
    TIP-GANDALF.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 0 – 36.54.0.34
    MOJAVE.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 0 – 36.22.0.120
    SUMMIT.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 0 – 36.51.0.21
    PORTIA.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 0 – 36.21.0.69
    LEAR.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 0 – 36.21.0.101
    CSLI.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 0 – 36.9.0.46
    ALFALFA.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 0 – 36.10.0.43
    MACBETH.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 0 – 36.21.0.13
    GAUSS.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 0 – 36.82.0.60
    GSB-WHY.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 0 – 36.67.0.209 36.19.0.209
    HAMLET.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 0 – 36.21.0.103
    FORSYTHE.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 0 – 36.54.0.16
    KRAKATOA.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 0 – 36.10.0.22
    RUSSELL.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 0 – 36.9.0.9
    POLYA.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 0 – 36.8.0.160
    GSB-HOW.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 0 – 36.67.0.210 36.19.0.210
    SHASTA.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 0 – 36.14.0.1
    TIP-GANDALF.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 0 – 36.54.0.34
    MOJAVE.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 0 – 36.22.0.120
    SUMMIT.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 0 – 36.51.0.21
    PORTIA.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 0 – 36.21.0.69
    LEAR.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 0 – 36.21.0.101
    CSLI.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 0 – 36.9.0.46
    ALFALFA.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 0 – 36.10.0.43
    MACBETH.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 0 – 36.21.0.13
    GAUSS.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 0 – 36.82.0.60
    GSB-WHY.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 0 – 36.67.0.209 36.19.0.209
    HAMLET.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 0 – 36.21.0.103
    FORSYTHE.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 0 – 36.54.0.16
    KRAKATOA.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 0 – 36.10.0.22
    RUSSELL.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 0 – 36.9.0.9
    POLYA.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 0 – 36.8.0.160
    ELF1.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 0 – 36.54.0.12
    GURGI.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 0 – 36.22.0.126
    PSYCH.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 0 – 36.82.0.20
    DELLA.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 0 – 36.76.0.122
    BOGART.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 0 – 36.76.0.113
    GLACIER.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 1 – 36.22.0.115
    FIZZLE.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 1 – 36.92.0.200
    DEFIANT.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 1 – 36.53.0.171
    SUMEX-AIM.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 1 – 36.44.0.6
    GYROLIA.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 1 – 36.64.0.80
    ARARAT.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 1 – 36.10.0.20
    SCOTTY.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 1 – 36.10.0.21
    CELLBIO.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 1 – 36.69.0.10
    ECLIPSE.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 1 – 36.8.0.204
    SIERRA.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 1 – 36.2.0.98
    RLG.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 1 – 36.54.0.18
    AM-SUN1.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 1 – 36.10.0.38
    UMUNHUM.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 1 – 36.14.0.15
    SPIN.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 1 – 36.65.0.10
    PLAYFAIR.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 1 – 36.63.0.171
    WOLVESDEN.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 2 – 36.8.0.179
    LINDY.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 2 – 36.54.0.11
    SUNRISE.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 2 – 36.93.0.20
    SCORE.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 2 – 36.8.0.46
    NUCPHY2.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 2 – 36.92.0.110
    WATSONTN.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 3 – 36.21.0.200 36.21.0.201
    JESSICA.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 3 – 36.21.0.20
    AM-SUN2.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 3 – 36.10.0.39
    COYOTE.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 3 – 36.12.0.2 36.18.0.215
    CIVE.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 3 – 36.93.0.50
    LANE-MEDLINE.STANFORD.ED (temp, OK) 3 – 36.44.0.208
    AM-CONVEX1.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 3 – 36.10.0.37
    CNC-SUN.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 4 – 36.93.0.25
    FLASH.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 4 – 36.22.0.122
    ELROND.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 5 – 36.82.0.21
    SIMPLICITY.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 5 – 36.8.0.104
    DENALI.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 5 – 36.51.0.10
    ANNA.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 6 – 36.14.0.13
    ISL.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 6 – 36.10.0.201
    MERCURY.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 7 – 36.93.0.41
    KADBASE.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 7 – 36.51.0.50
    SUN-VALLEY.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 7 – 36.10.0.100
    CDRSUN.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 8 – 36.93.0.24
    OASIS.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 8 – 36.2.0.11
    PATIENCE.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 8 – 36.8.0.154
    AMADEUS.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 9 – 36.22.0.20
    SUWATSON.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 9 – 36.21.0.12
    SONOMA.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 9 – 36.22.0.158
    GEEMUNU.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 9 – 36.92.0.130
    TSUNAMI.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 9 – 36.8.0.193
    HARUNA.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 9 – 36.51.0.19
    STAR4.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 10 – 36.10.0.222
    PESCADERO.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 10 – 36.8.0.8
    NOVA1.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 10 – 36.10.0.124
    ITHINK.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 10 – 36.14.0.18
    EREBUS.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 11 – 36.51.0.9
    CHARLESTON.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 12 – 36.22.0.15
    HUSC6.HARVARD.EDU (temp, ??) 17 – 128.103.1.56
    SEAGULL.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 18 – 36.22.0.180
    GSB-WHICH.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 19 – 36.67.0.211
    GANG-OF-FOUR.STANFORD.ED (temp, OK) 19 – 36.8.0.118
    MED-ISG.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 19 – 36.73.0.71
    CRYSTALS.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 19 – 36.82.0.51
    BRADYBUNCH.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 19 – 36.22.0.12
    APADANA.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 19 – 36.22.0.176
    BRAVERY.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 19 – 36.8.0.127
    MEGGIE.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 19 – 36.64.0.180
    GARCIA.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 19 – 36.51.0.43
    URANIA.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 20 – 36.14.0.89
    COBRA.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 20 – 36.14.0.11
    INTEGRITY.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 20 – 36.8.0.151
    MRFROSTY.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 20 – 36.59.0.10
    ORPHEUS.STANFORD.EDU (temp, ??) 21 – 36.51.0.66
    SAIL.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 21 – 36.86.0.194
    PRIDE.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 21 – 36.8.0.100
    FIDELITY.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 21 – 36.8.0.138
    EAR.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 21 – 36.2.0.106
    ARDEN.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 21 – 36.65.0.26
    MAC-PC.STANFORD.EDU (temp, ??) 22 – 36.64.0.62
    BUDDY.BERKELEY.EDU (temp, ??) 22 – 128.32.134.10
    CMSA.BERKELEY.EDU (temp, ??) 23 – 128.32.136.4
    STAR.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 23 – 36.10.0.5
    PREP.AI.MIT.EDU (temp, ??) 23 – 128.52.32.14 128.52.22.14
    128.52.14.14
    BEAUTY.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 24 – 36.8.0.149
    RIO.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 25 – 36.76.0.51
    PROMETHEUS.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 25 – 36.22.0.11
    CASCADE.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 26 – 36.22.0.8COMPOSITE.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 26 – 36.10.0.72
    BUCKWHEAT.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 27 – 36.10.0.44
    TIP-MJHD.STANFORD.EDU (temp, ??) 27 – 36.8.0.131
    RASCALS.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 27 – 36.10.0.41
    NERISSA.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 28 – 36.21.0.19
    ANGELO.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 29 – 36.21.0.80
    MONOLITH.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 29 – 36.7.0.169
    NEPENTHE.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 30 – 36.9.0.32
    STAR5.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 31 – 36.10.0.223
    ARTEMIS.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 31 – 36.10.0.74
    WHIRLWIND.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 32 – 36.10.0.6
    PEKOE.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 32 – 36.10.0.60
    PRESTO.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 33 – 36.22.0.136
    JULIUS.MIT.EDU (temp, ??) 33 – 18.92.0.46
    ATHENA.MIT.EDU (temp, ??) 33 – 18.72.0.39
    FOREL.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 37 – 36.51.0.18
    GALILEO.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 40 – 36.22.0.145
    SAMBAL.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 42 – 36.22.0.166
    KARNAK.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 42 – 36.22.0.106
    MEDUSA.STANFORD.EDU (temp, ??) 42 – 36.22.0.119
    SENSEI.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 44 – 36.22.0.208
    CORONA.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 44 – 36.14.0.6
    HONESTY.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 44 – 36.8.0.139
    CHASTITY.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 44 – 36.8.0.153
    NOVA2.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 45 – 36.10.0.125
    DRONGO.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 46 – 36.93.0.30
    NAVIER.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 47 – 36.65.0.21
    MODESTY.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 50 – 36.8.0.152
    SAFE.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 51 – 36.44.0.193
    ARDVAX.STANFORD.EDU (temp, ??) 51 – 36.47.0.193
    MJH-A-GATEWAY.STANFORD.E (temp, OK) 51 – 36.8.0.4 36.56.0.15
    36.86.0.32
    SRI-NIC.ARPA (temp, ??) 51 – 10.0.0.51 26.0.0.73
    STAR2.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 51 – 36.10.0.220
    CAD-A.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 54 – 36.2.0.101
    HOTSPUR.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 54 – 36.21.0.21
    TITANIA.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 54 – 36.21.0.36
    STOKES.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 54 – 36.65.0.100
    FAIZ.STANFORD.EDU (temp, ??) 54 – 36.8.0.158
    TWG.COM (temp, ??) 54 – 26.5.0.73
    TIP-QUADA.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 57 – 36.82.0.161
    ARAPAHO.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 58 – 36.83.0.20
    SIOUX.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 58 – 36.83.0.100
    GANDALF.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 64 – 36.54.0.20
    IRISGEORGE.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 66 – 36.83.0.26
    BACALL.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 67 – 36.76.0.112
    MAXWELL.ECE.CMU.EDU (temp, ??) 68 – 128.2.251.3
    GSB-WHAT.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 68 – 36.67.0.213
    HELENS.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 70 – 36.2.0.99
    VELOX.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 70 – 36.22.0.168
    CAUCHY.STANFORD.EDU (temp, OK) 71 – 36.82.0.16
    PIC.UCLA.EDU (temp, ??) 71 – 128.97.12.2
    OAC.UCLA.EDU (temp, ??) 71 – 10.1.0.1 31.4.0.5
    128.97.64.101

    [Connection to 36.21.0.20 closed by foreign host]
    tip-cerasshow
    % Type "show ?" for a list of subcommands
    tip-cerasa>show hosts wesleyan.edu

    Default domain is STANFORD.EDU
    Name/address lookup uses domain service
    Name servers are 36.21.0.20, 36.56.0.151, 36.8.0.47

    –More–
    Host Flags Age Port Address(es)

    tip-cerasa>show ?

    hardware Hardware configuration
    hosts Host/address cache
    sessions Telnet and rlogin connections
    terminal Terminal parameters
    users Summary of active lines and connections
    tip-cerasa>

    tip-cerasa>show users

    TTY Host(s) Idle Location
    tty2 SUMMIT 4 322-5772
    tty6 AM-CONVEX1 2d07 322-5776
    tty13 idle 723-8643
    tty17 PORTIA 0 723-8647
    tty26 PORTIA 0 723-8654
    tty41 COYOTE 2d09 323-7632
    tty61 NUCPHY2 2 2400 baud dialin 723-8511
    tty62 LEAR 0 2400 baud dialin 723-8512
    *tty63 idle 2400 baud dialin 723-8513
    tty67 MOJAVE 9 2400 baud dialin 723-8517
    SHASTA 2

    tip-cerasa>show hardware

    System Bootstrap, Version 3.2(17), copyright (c) 1988 by cisco Systems, Inc.
    System Software, Version 6.2(101), compiled Thu 05-May-88 15:37
    Copyright (c) 1986, 1988 by cisco Systems, Inc.
    tip-cerasa uptime is 2 weeks, 3 days, 3 hours, 0 minutes
    System restarted by watchdog timer expired
    Running default software
    Host config file is "tip-cerasa-confg"
    Network config file is "network-confg"
    Local IP address(es) 36.21.0.67

    CSC1 (68000) processor with 1024K bytes of memory.
    1 Ethernet/IEEE 802.3 interface.
    64 terminal lines.
    32K bytes of non-volatile configuration memory.
    Configuration register is 0x301

    tip-cerasa>domain
    Translating "DOMAIN"…domain server (36.21.0.20)
    % Unknown command or computer name, or unable to find computer address
    tip-cerasa>exit
    *7;^

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  13. jurvetson Avatar
    jurvetson

    Note:
    2 weeks of uptime
    1MB of memory
    bandwidth: 2.4 kb/sec

    And why, oh why did I type "show hosts wesleyan.edu" ???

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  14. jurvetson Avatar
    jurvetson

    Looking at the file location, I know that these were files that I recently uploaded from my floppy disc archives. Here is the first page of another interesting one, when I was in the Ph.D EE program (ever so briefly):

    CONNECTED NODES AS OF 01/10/89
    TOTAL NODES = 2599

    NodeSiteSystem
    —————————————————————————
    AASCUAASCU Meeting Demo NodeVMS V5.0
    ACADIAAcadia UNOS
    ACMVMAssoc Computing MachineryVM/SP
    ACUVAXAbilene Christian UnivVMS
    AEARNAustria EARNVM/SP
    AECLCRChalk River Nuclear LabsNOS
    AGUAmerican Geophy UnionVMS
    AINUNI01EDV-Zentrum Uni InnsbruckNOS/VE 1 3
    AIPPINETAmerican Instit of PhysicsUTX/32 2.0
    AKRONU AkronMVS/XA 2 1.7
    AKRONVAXU AkronULTRIX
    AKRONVMU AkronVM/SP HPO 5
    ALASKAU of Alaska Comp NetVMS
    ALBIONAlbion CollegeVMS
    ALBNYMVSSUNY CSC MVSMVS/JES2
    ALBNYVM1SUNY Albany CSCVM/HPO
    ALBNY1VXSUNY Albany CSC VMSVMS
    ALCANKTNAlcan Int Ltd KRDCVMS
    ALIJKU21Johannes Kepler U LinzIBM MVS/SP 1 3.8
    ALISUVAXIowa S U Ames Lab Dept EnergyVMS
    ALLEGVMAllegheny ColVM/SP
    ALLOYJohnson & JohnsonVMS
    ALMCSVM1IBM Almaden Res CtrVM/SP
    ALMCSVM2IBM Almaden Res CtrVM/SP
    ALMCSVM6IBM Almaden Res CtrVM/SP
    ALMCSVS5IBM Almaden Res CtrVM/SP
    ALMVMAIBM Almaden Res CtrVM/SP
    ALMVMBIBM Almaden Res CtrVM/SP
    ALMVMCIBM Almaden Res CtrVM/SP
    ALMVMZIBM Almaden Res CtrVM/SP
    AMHERSTAmherst College Acad Comp CtrVMS
    ANBIORArgonne Biology DivisonVMS
    ANDREWCMU Computing ServicesUNIX
    ANLADM1Argonne Nat Lab Admin NBI 1OASYS
    ANLADM2Argonne Nat Lab Admin NBI 2OASYS
    ANLAPSArgonne Advanced Photon SourceVMS
    …

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  15. jurvetson Avatar
    jurvetson

    Below is a file of the The Stanford.edu games and their coders.

    One interesting line in this came capsule: The handle H.HAGERTY sure sounds familiar (ignore the H. prefix as all the Stanford email addresses had the leading letter repeated with the period separator, like e.estonia for me). I’m betting it was Paul Hagerty, who was probably a freshman in BSEE in 1983 (based on the only bio I could find on him, a SEC filing). He went on to get a MSEE (as did I three years later) and went to work for Steve Jobs for eight years at NeXT as VP Engineering. When Apple acquired NeXT in 1996, he co-founded Ariba (which then went on to acquire TRADEX, a company I invested in for $5.6B… yes, Ariba was valued so highly that it could acquire a company nobody has heard of for over five billion dollars and it did not seem particularly newsworthy or memorable). He is now a Professor at Stanford teaching iPhone and iPad App development.

    "GAME DIRECTORY"
    ADVBBD.DAT.1;P777752 1 711(7) 6-Jan-82 10:28:21 P.PIERRE
    ADVENTURE.EXE.27;P777712 144 73728(36) 29-May-87 19:51:27 A.APPLEHACKS
    ADVGRP.LOG.1;P777752 15 38128(7) 17-Apr-85 18:13:24 N.NAVAL
    ADVMAP.TXT.1;P777712 40 20353(36) 27-Dec-87 17:16:24 A.APPLEHACKS
    ADVTXT.BIN.1;P777752 51 25745(36) 15-Dec-85 06:55:11 J.JPBION
    ADVVAR.BIN.3;P777752 30 15121(36) 27-Dec-87 17:17:18 A.APPLEHACKS
    ADVWIN.LOG.1;P777752 1 685(7) 21-Apr-85 07:02:33 M.MERINO
    ADVWIZ.DAT.2;P777752 1 201(7) 11-May-85 20:19:57 A.APPLEHACKS
    ALIVE.EXE.1;P777712 19 9728(36) 19-Mar-84 00:54:05 S.SBSJR
    BKG.EXE.4;P777712 49 25088(36) 16-Apr-82 00:52:19 K.KZIN
    CAVE.EXE.1;P777712 21 10752(36) 24-Nov-86 12:53:16 D.DOUG
    .TXT.1;P777752 1 170(7) 1-Dec-81 03:31:06 D.DAGONE
    CHESS.EXE.2;P777712 29 14848(36) 18-Mar-84 18:43:03 S.SARGON
    .USE.1;P777752 1 426(7) 12-Jan-80 00:22:40 K.KZIN
    CHING.EXE.3;P777712;E 15 7316(36) 8-May-83 17:24:18 H.HEGARTY
    CLONE.EXE.1;P777712 5 2560(36) 11-Sep-84 06:48:32 A.JPBION
    COOKIE.EXE.11;P777712 10 4713(36) 9-Dec-88 15:26:46 D.DANZY
    CRIME.EXE.5;P777712 55 28160(36) 8-Mar-86 07:39:20 S.SARGON
    DCLOCK.EXE.5;P777712 4 2048(36) 17-Jan-82 17:09:26 K.KRONJ
    FASTLIFE.EXE.3;P777712 40 20480(36) 5-Aug-81 04:53:01 J.JWILSON
    FISK.EXE.9;P777712 121 61952(36) 28-May-85 06:00:05 A.ALICIA
    GALAXY.EXE.8;P777712 53 27136(36) 25-Mar-85 20:45:35 J.JPBION
    .HLP.6;P777752 7 16140(7) 11-May-80 12:26:51 J.JPBION
    GAMMON.EXE.1;P777712 97 49664(36) 1-Jan-83 19:10:28 A.APPLEHACKS
    .NOTES.1;P777712 1 310(7) 20-Oct-85 12:53:16 A.APPLEHACKS
    GOGAME.EXE.2;P777712 7 3584(36) 17-Sep-80 16:57:03 B.BOMBADIL
    GOMOKU.EXE.1;P777712 15 7370(36) 6-Jan-78 20:29:39 J.JQJOHNSON
    GRAMLIST.DAT.1;P777752 1 512(7) 6-Jan-83 18:36:48 Q.QUASAR
    GRAMNAMELIST.DAT.1;P777752 1 1588(7) 6-Jan-83 18:37:20 Q.QUASAR
    JACK.EXE.6;P777712 31 15872(36) 26-May-81 16:09:45 J.JWILSON
    JUMBLE.EXE.2;P777712 148 75776(36) 28-Feb-82 20:01:38 P.PERKINS
    LUGI.EXE.2;P777712 68 34816(36) 15-Jan-84 01:01:29 S.SARGON
    MANHUNT.EXE.14;P777712 35 17920(36) 18-Aug-81 21:50:41 P.PARKER
    MARNY.GAM.1;P777712 2 918(36) 22-Aug-86 18:29:57 B.BILLW
    MASTER.EXE.1;P777712 7 3584(36) 27-Jul-76 01:58:30 J.JQJOHNSON
    MDL105.EXE.1;P777752 104 53248(36) 10-Mar-84 01:00:37 A.APPLEHACKS
    MILLE.EXE.1;P777712 55 28160(36) 12-Jan-84 19:09:03 S.SARGON
    .HLP.1;P777752 5 12005(7) 12-Jan-84 19:14:11 S.SARGON
    MONOPOLY.EXE.4;P777712 75 38400(36) 21-Mar-81 11:55:29 R.RBEIGEL
    NO-Q-GAMMON.EXE.1;P777712 138 70656(36) 20-Oct-85 12:52:34 A.APPLEHACKS
    OLDADVENTURE.EXE.2;P777712 112 57344(36) 14-Dec-85 11:17:05 J.JPBION
    OLD_OTHELLO.EXE.1;P777712 60 30720(36) 21-Dec-82 01:16:54 M.MSM
    OTHELLO.EXE.3;P777712 10 5120(36) 20-Jun-86 13:26:51 A.APPLEHACKS
    PACLAND.DAT.1;P777752 2 5101(7) 11-Sep-83 17:10:15 N.NICHOLSON
    PACMAN.EXE.3;P777712 36 18432(36) 19-Feb-88 14:05:05 A.APPLEHACKS
    PACTXTC.TXT.1;P777752 1 61(7) 11-Sep-83 16:50:44 N.NICHOLSON
    PACTXTO.TXT.1;P777752 2 2610(7) 11-Sep-83 16:50:00 N.NICHOLSON
    PHOON.EXE.1;P777712;E 11 5577(36) 5-Apr-79 16:05:05 D.DAGONE
    POISON.EXE.2;P777712 4 1830(36) 4-Jun-83 11:55:24 P.PARKER
    QU20.DOC.8;P777752 2 2892(7) 20-Nov-81 22:09:17 P.PERKINS
    .EXE.1;P777712 5 2560(36) 20-Jan-77 11:38:17 J.JQJOHNSON
    QUBIC.DOC.1;P777752 1 181(7) 2-Aug-84 23:12:13 P.PURVES
    .EXE.1;P777712 25 12587(36) 2-Aug-84 22:45:42 P.PURVES
    REACTION-TEST.EXE.1;P777712 3 1536(36) 19-Sep-82 22:44:32 P.PERKINS
    ROBOT.EXE.62;P777712 29 14848(36) 28-Nov-82 16:38:01 A.ALICIA
    ROGUE.DOC.2;P775252 11 27445(7) 15-Nov-84 19:38:46 C.CHARISMA
    .EXE.2;P771212 102 52224(36) 17-Apr-87 05:39:09 C.CHARISMA
    .INSTRUCTIONS.1;P775252 1 1314(7) 23-Apr-83 12:28:17 P.PIERRE
    .MESSAGE.3;P775252 1 362(7) 1-Mar-89 09:45:14 C.CHARISMA
    .MSS.1;P775252 10 24671(7) 15-Nov-84 15:43:13 C.CHARISMA
    SHOOT.EXE.4;P777712 38 19456(36) 13-Feb-82 21:35:25 K.KRONJ
    SIM.EXE.6;P777712 16 8192(36) 15-Jan-79 13:27:34 G.GROG
    STARTREK.DOC.1;P777752 15 37486(7) 30-Mar-81 23:23:14 C.CHIPMUNK
    .EXE.1;P777752 40 20480(36) 1-Oct-81 16:02:27 E.ERNEST
    THANK.EXE.1;P777712;E 1 241(36) 8-Jan-83 11:56:58 S.STELLA
    TIMEX.EXE.1;P777712;E 2 680(36) 19-Dec-80 09:49:42 O.O7
    TREK.DOC.1;P777752 4 8538(7) 24-May-82 17:15:51 P.PERKINS
    .EXE.3;P777712 77 39424(36) 1-Oct-81 16:41:53 E.ERNEST
    VT100.EXE.3;P777712;E 12 6144(36) 8-Aug-81 05:49:00 P.PERKINS
    VTTREK.DOC.1;P777752 11 26175(7) 27-Apr-81 08:49:19 E.ERNEST
    .EXE.4;P777712 29 14848(36) 5-Apr-82 22:42:03 D.DAGONE
    WARGAMES.EXE.1;P771212 4 2048(36) 14-Feb-85 21:27:24 C.CHARISMA
    WUMPUS.EXE.4;P777712 6 3072(36) 21-Mar-81 11:55:13 R.RBEIGEL
    .HLP.2;P777752 7 16270(7) 7-May-82 02:29:57 H.HEBREW
    ZORK.EXE.4;P777712 2 1024(36) 26-Feb-88 16:15:41 A.APPLEHACKS
    .LOG.1;P777712 1 135(7) 28-Feb-88 17:22:01 A.APPLEHACKS
    .SAV.1;P775252 316 161792(36) 10-Mar-84 00:38:51 A.APPLEHACKS

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  16. jurvetson Avatar
    jurvetson

    This was the Internet….

    Choose a subtopic (? for help):
    @type TELNET.DOC
    ?File not found – "TELNET.DOC"
    @type DOC:TELNET.DOC

    Tenth Edition

    TELNET User’s Guide
    Mark Crispin
    12/28/83

    The following is a sample user session with TELNET, as
    actually taken on an ARPANET site (SU-SCORE).

    @TELNET
    TELNET>? command, one of the following:
    CONNECT DEBUG ESCAPE EXIT EXTENDED HELP LINE
    LOG NETWORK NO OPAQUE PAGE PUSH QUIT
    STATUS TAKE
    or host name
    TELNET>sierra
    Trying… Open

    Stanford Sierra, TOPS-20 Monitor 5.3(5000)-4
    @sySTAT
    Wed 28-Dec-83 06:13:33 Up 13:39:49
    0+5 Jobs Load av 0.03 0.33 0.32

    Job Line Program User Foreign host
    8* 145 SYSTAT Not logged in {Score}

    1 DET SYSJB1 OPERATOR
    2 106 OPR OPERATOR
    3 107 MMAILR OPERATOR
    4 110 INTSRV OPERATOR
    5 111 LSRSPL OPERATOR
    @logo
    Killed Job 8, TTY 145, at 28-Dec-83 06:13:38
    Used 0:00:00 in 0:00:07

    Connection closed by foreign host
    TELNET>exIT (FROM TELNET)

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  17. scleroplex Avatar
    scleroplex

    evolution in action on a compressed time-scale 🙂

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  18. scleroplex Avatar
    scleroplex

    "The Spamhaus mafia tactics definitely are the largest threat to the freedom of the internet at this moment, yes so they piss me off the most.

    Probably the copyright people, that’s a good second. The IRAA and the MPAA and all their wannabe attorneys are a good second but at least they go to court even though they may try to corrupt the court, at least they go to court which is something that cannot be said for Spamhaus."

    rt.com/news/spamhaus-threat-cyberbunker-ddos-attack-956/

    who knew a British company had this much power over the Internet!

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  19. scleroplex Avatar
    scleroplex

    yup, it was CyberBunker under a DDoS attack

    "Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack proponents beware: Your own websites may also be targeted for disruption.
    The anything-goes Dutch hosting provider CyberBunker, which has been accused of backing a DDoS disruption campaign against anti-spam site Spamhaus, as of Thursday morning found its own supposedly bulletproof website knocked offline, making it the apparent victim of a sustained DDoS attack. "

    http://www.informationweek.com/security/attacks/ddos-spam-feud-b...

    http://www.techweekeurope.co.uk/news/dutch-isp-hits-spamhaus-wit...

    Rule Britannia, Britannia waives the rules……….

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  20. heet_myser Avatar
    heet_myser

    [http://www.flickr.com/photos/scleroplex]

    Turns out it was all a marketing campaign!

    gizmodo.com/5992652/that-internet-war-apocalypse-is-a-lie

    Crazy times.

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  21. scleroplex Avatar
    scleroplex

    yes!
    sounded very fishy from the start.

    as it is i do not believe any "nonprofit" NGOs, especially British ones.
    or their private fundraisers.

    i am going to disbelieve Spamhaus even more now.
    liars!

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  22. Jim Rees Avatar
    Jim Rees

    Kaplow is confusing the Internet with UUCP, another network that operated over dialup phone lines. The two didn’t talk to each other directly but there were gateways for email. Later on some of the UUCP links ran over Internet connections.

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  23. ShannonMcElyea Avatar
    ShannonMcElyea

    [http://www.flickr.com/photos/jurvetson] I was in that book! In 1978 or ’79 I had one. Wish I had saved it.

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