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O Where Art Thou, Freeboxen.com?
Aciel asks: "Does anyone know what happened to Freeboxen? For those who don't remember, Freeboxen was a free site where one could post old hardware and have it taken off your hands. Very cool, especially for building Beowulf clusters. Anyway, I found this Slashdot posting about it, from when it was originally announced, but going to the site turns up a 'Cannot find server.' A Google search for it reveals several cached pages, including one which provides the e-mail addresses of Freeboxen's owner, James Lincoln. But both e-mail addresses -and- a subsequent attempt replacing mindspring.com with earthlink.net returns messages from angry mailer-daemons. I did a 'whois freeboxen.com', and it turned up a phone number and address, but I'm not inclined to harass people in their homes and offices. Anyone know what happened to Freeboxen, then? If not, are there any other good old hardware swap sites out there?"
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He shut down, he was sick of the people trying to
get free laptops and stuff, he meant it to be for people to give away their old hardware, not trade old crappy stuff, and try to ask for Newtons and Palm-Pilots in return.
There was a notice on the web-page after the site
shut down for about ten days.