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An aside re: Yahoo -- Somewhere I have my website logs from the 1995-96 timeframe. I'll have to try to dig 'em up. I remember the day the site got listed on Yah
by EvanAnderson 9y ago
An aside re: Yahoo -- Somewhere I have my website logs from the 1995-96 timeframe. I'll have to try to dig 'em up. I remember the day the site got listed on Yahoo, however. I got hits from machines with names like "scabies.yahoo.com", "ratbastard.yahoo.com", and "srinija.yahoo.com". There were some others, but I can't remember them (scurvy, maybe?). (I remember reading the Wired article about Yahoo in '96, seeing the name "Srinija Srinivasan", and figuring out what that last hostname meant.)
- dpark 9y agoThat’s well before my time at Yahoo. By the time I joined, their IT group preinstalled and named every device with a two-word nonoffensive moniker. By then they weren’t giving out 3rd level domains anymore either. :)
- EvanAnderson 9y agoFound the logs! Woo-hoo! Monday, July 1, 1996 - We got hits from: polio.yahoo.com, pilsner.yahoo.com, mead.yahoo.com, scabies.yahoo.com, ratbastard.yahoo.com, lambic.yahoo.com, stout.yahoo.com, scorpio.yahoo.com, and srinija.yahoo.com. The Wired article had already come out at that point so I must have just remembered Srinija Srinivasan's name from the article. Later in 1996 and in early '97 we got hits from: suppository.yahoo.com, boils.yahoo.com, tuberculosis.yahoo.com, and lobo.yahoo.com. So, I see an alcoholic beverage theme and a disease theme. Yay!