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Due to the efforts of a small number of people in Apple engineering (notably Erik Fair), Apple was a pretty major internet presence in the early 90’s. Though, o
by wrs 9y ago
Due to the efforts of a small number of people in Apple engineering (notably Erik Fair), Apple was a pretty major internet presence in the early 90’s. Though, oddly, the exec level pretty much didn’t know it existed. Remember eWorld? (Probably not.)
How did Apple get a /8? “We asked.” (https://www.quora.com/How-did-MIT-end-up-with-an-entire-class-A-subnet-of-the-IP-address-space/answer/Erik-Fair?share=769e86a1&srid=dwH https://www.quora.com/How-did-MIT-end-up-with-an-entire-clas...)
- WorldMaker 9y agoThe odd man out in the corporate /8 space seems to be Ford Motor Company.
- JoblessWonder 9y agoI think Prudential Insurance (48.0.0.0/8) is even weirder.
- raattgift 9y ago> "We asked" Not "just" asked for by Apple, but fairly close. The relevant bit: 'we renumbered the entire company from "picked out of the air" IP Addresses to net 17, assigned to us upon request by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) (R.I.P., Jon Postel).' https://www.quora.com/What-are-some-reasons-Apple-employees-leave-Apple/answer/Erik-Fair https://www.quora.com/What-are-some-reasons-Apple-employees-...