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Henry Bent wrote:
>  MIT and Stanford PDP-10 archives have various HOSTS files going back
>  to the mid 1970s.
>
> Links?  I have not the slightest idea where to start looking for those
> archives

Hopefully they will be more accessible in the future.  For now, here's a
link to the oldest 1977 copy of HOSTS.TXT in Mark Cripin's directory on
the SAIL PDP-10:

https://www.saildart.org/HOSTS.TXT[NET,MRC]1