Why is localhost IP 127.0.0.1?

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Full question
https://superuser.com/questions/31824/wh...

Answer 1 links:
[RFC 990]: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc990#pa...
[RFC 790]: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc790#pa...

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