back in the begin when Al Gore invented the internet.... HAHAHA YEAH RIGHT!!! good ole ARPAnet later know DARPAnet was the internet

the old Unix guys in colleges never thought the internet would catch on. so they devoted and entire Class A network, the 127 net, to pinging back on your network adapter which means they gave up 16,777,214 IP addresses just to make sure the Adapter works...

hope that shed some light on the dismal