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Longest-Serving Web Server?

Posted by Cliff on from the work-horses-by-virtue-of-continued-operation dept.

frisket asks: "The Sun IPX formerly known as curia.ucc.ie (now imbolc.ucc.ie) entered TBL's CERN main menu in 1992 to serve the CURIA project (now CELT) as a search engine (running PAT). The same machine is still doing the same job, and we're trying to find out if it really is the longest continuously-serving Web server. Does anyone know if any of the other links from that page at the time (has anyone a copy even?) are which are still served by the same hardware?"

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  1. reality.sgi.com by Toraz+Chryx · · Score: 2, Informative

    Didn't SGI's reality server stay up for 9 and a bit years or so? (and then they took it down)

    1. Re:reality.sgi.com by green+pizza · · Score: 3, Informative

      Reality was a webserver for about seven and a half years, but before that it was a file/email screw-around server for employees. Started its life as a PowerSeries machine and with lots of duct tape, chewing gum, and bailing wire, eventually received enough upgrades and parts over the years to became basicly a Challenge L.

      http://reality.sgi.com still has a few blurbs. The same server should be online again soon as http://reality.exsgi.org.

      And really, unless SGI gets off its ass, reality won't be the only webserver at SGI going offline...

    2. Re:reality.sgi.com by green+pizza · · Score: 2

      reality is up for approx. 10 billion years now and AFAIK it's still running
      Yeah, but most of us are out of touch with it...

  2. Slashdot Effect + Oldest Server = Dead Server by jaydho · · Score: 5, Funny

    You do the math.

  3. Re:NetCraft? by green+pizza · · Score: 2

    http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/today/top.avg.html

    Prepare to lose all karma... anyone else find it interesting that the OSes on the top-uptime list are all *BSD and SiliconGraphics IRIX? No Windows here!