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Do TCP and UDP defaulting to port 8080 have anything to do with Intel naming their first successful server architectures 8080? Or is that just a coincidence?

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Hi Jon, I Don't think that the 8080 was ever used in servers. It was really too slow and had almost entirely been superseded by the time servers became widely used.

The origins of port 8080 are a bit obscure to me but the most credible account I've heard rests around it being based on port 80. Tim Berners-Lee used port 80 for http and so 8080 was a natural extension of the use of port 80.

This account is quite good I think.

https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2023/short-history-of-port-numbers/

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