In the 90s when we roamed through a Cambridge whose crumbling brick and stark
lots had not yet been painted by the glaze of dot-com money, we would come home
of an evening and connect to Athena via dialup servers. We used telnet instead
of ssh because 1) ssh had barely been born at that point, and was hanging
out in Helsinki; and 2) we weren't ashamed of our packets, and sent them out
into the ether proudly, to be seen by all.
The names of the dialup servers became familiar to us, like the names of old
acquaintences, and last night as I was drifting to sleep, more than a quarter
century later, I remembered scrubbing-bubbles but could not recall any others.
I looked them up, and here they are:
biohazard-cafe.mit.edu
scrubbing-bubbles.mit.edu
no-knife.mit.edu,
mass-toolpike.mit.edu
cathedral-seven.mit.edu
mint-square.mit.edu,
buzzword-bingo.mit.edu
department-of-alchemy.mit.edu,
ten-thousand-dollar-bill.mit.edu
contents-vnder-pressvre.mit.edu