Re: Cyberharpers

Bob MacDowell (bobmacd@netcom.com)
Fri, 30 Aug 1996 19:48:24 -0700

Sheila Schiferl <sks@xdiv.lanl.gov> writes,
>One vote here for ARPAnet.

Oh, I wanted "arpa.net" for my site name! But it's taken!!!!!
Prolly some harpist with a Linux box beat me to it.... bwaaaaaaaa...
maybe I could buy the name from them for a hundred bucks or something...

Let's look...........
% whois arpa.net
American Regional Providers Association (ARPA3-DOM)
SDSC 0505
La Jolla, CA 92093-0505

Domain Name: ARPA.NET

Administrative Contact:
Shimomura, Tsutomu (TS260) tsutomu@SDSC.EDU
(619) 534-5050

Oooo! It's that guy who wrote the book about busting that hacker Kevin
Mitnick! I didn't know he played the harp...

Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
American Regional Providers Association (ARPA-HM) hostmaster@arpa.net
(619) 534-5050

Wow, must be a bunch of harp fans... :-) :-)

-Bob
[ARPAnet is what the Internet was called a few years ago, before it was
privatized.]