alt Hacker News> manually editing the hosts file was a mostly-obsolete practice by the time the first version of Windows shipped
This claim strikes me as obviously wrong.
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kbelder • yesterday at 11:12 PM
Yeah, I've had to manually edit hosts for every work and personal windows machine I've had in the last 20 years, I think. At least desktops.
Particularly since the first version of Windows shipped in what -1985? Contemporary with 4.2BSD? Did 4.2BSD even use /etc/hosts the same way or DNS?