ARPANET HOSTS.TXT established
Elizabeth Feinler's team at SRI-NIC began maintaining a centralized `HOSTS.TXT` file for the ARPANET, manually mapping hostnames to IP addresses.
Significance
This was the foundational, albeit unscalable, naming system that DNS was designed to replace. It demonstrated the critical need for a naming service.
Key facts
- Year
- 1970
- Type
- milestone
- Location
- SRI-NIC, Stanford Research Institute