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JWZ has some information about running ancient browsers, which tend to fail because of the HOST header.

(http://www.jwz.org/blog/2008/03/happy-run-some-old-web-brows...)

Google has a handy list of other interesting early announcements to Usenet:

(http://www.google.com/googlegroups/archive_announce_20.html)

I remember the version of IE (2?) that shipped with some version of Windows didn't support the Host header and as a result, couldn't access microsoft.com properly, which one had to do to upgrade IE.

I think you're referring to NT4 which shipped with IE2. IE3 was released a month later and was included with some later CDs.

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