SRI had been independent of Stanford University since 1970, so the 1983 HOSTS.TXT system should be described as being at SRI-NIC rather than at Stanford.

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"SRI had been independent of Stanford University since 1970, so the 1983 HOSTS.TXT system should be described as being at SRI-NIC rather than at Stanford."

This fixes an institutional detail without changing the story - SRI was founded as Stanford Research Institute but had been independent since 1970. + Undated live SRI institutional page; current-year convention applied as of October 3, 2026.

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Source title About SRI International: History, Leadership, and Values

Source authors SRI International

Source year 2026

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