[Smaug] How long have you been on the net? (was: Web site maintenance (was: scruz.org re-design))

[Anthony Ettinger]

March 8, 1996 (google groups)
http://tinyurl.com/7uc5j


--- Max Baker <max at warped.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 12:58:10PM -0700, Rob
> Beckett wrote:
> > Max,
> > 
> > Bloody hell. The oldest message I can find of my
> existence online is
> > from Jan 26 1997
>
(http://groups.google.com/group/alt.radio.uk/browse_thread/thread/a19c1ff112f26cac/4fd31285aeea9205?lnk=st&q=subwolf@enterprise.net&rnum=2#4fd31285aeea9205)
> > However, to this group I be a newb. Jay lured me
> here after I heard
> > about the flames.
> 
> This is a fun game, I like it.  Try to find the
> oldest evidence of you
> being on the net.  Can't be on a site you own or
> maintain.
> 
> You got me beat ;-)  Very nice to see a FIDO net
> address btw... that
> brings me back.  Oldest I can find is using the "way
> back machine" - April
> 10, 1997.  But I know I registered the domain in 95
> when it was free (the
> only reason i did register it because it was free).
> 
>
http://web.archive.org/web/19970410125134/http://www.warped.org/
> 
> Linux Content : The machine I ran warped.org on a
> year or two after that
> time was running Mandrake 7.x.  We let it sit with
> the buggiest oldest
> kernel online and it got to 550 days uptime before
> we finally got
> embarassed about the amount of security holes and
> the age of the kernel.
> 
> It was a Penguin Computing 1u box co'lod at
> above.net in san jose.  At
> that time I was pretty convinced that Linux was
> going to take over the
> world.  So far it's only taken over the server
> world.
> 
> -m
> 
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