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Re:So Long Last /8 and Thanks For All the Allocations by wrs on Tuesday April 24, 2018 @11:00AM (#16913118)
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-clas...)

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Re:So Long Last /8 and Thanks For All the Allocations by raattgift on Tuesday April 24, 2018 @11:30AM (#16913421)
> "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-...

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Re:So Long Last /8 and Thanks For All the Allocations by WorldMaker on Tuesday April 24, 2018 @11:03AM (#16913153)
The odd man out in the corporate /8 space seems to be Ford Motor Company.
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Re:So Long Last /8 and Thanks For All the Allocations by JoblessWonder on Tuesday April 24, 2018 @04:08PM (#16916090)
I think Prudential Insurance (48.0.0.0/8) is even weirder.
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