[ih] TCP adoption in 1984

[Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond]

Prior to DNS I gather you'd be looking for a hosts.txt table?
What I love about the Internet is that there always seems to be someone, 
somewhere, who has saved something for whatever reason... or is 
publishing it free of charge.*

Check out the host files listed here: https://emaillab.jp/dns/hosts/

I am sure there are other sources available too.

Kindest regards,

Olivier

On 02/05/2026 23:26, Bob Purvy via Internet-history wrote:
> Grok's estimate is that about 900 hosts could be reached via TCP, at the
> end of 1984. RFC 984 for TCP over Ethernet was in April of that year.
>
> Were these *entirely* university and research machines? Were any of them
> actually running TCP on Ethernet? Does anyone know"
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bob