stepleton
Veteran Member
After two months of rest and recuperation, our Whitechapel MG-1 is back to serving HTTP requests again at http://mg-1.uk:31132. This is not a dependable computer at all and it will probably be down again by the time you read this.
It did make me curious: do other people have old machines serving webpages? It was fun to write a webserver for a machine that predates the web by six years or so, and I have to imagine other people have set up similar sorts of things. Some web searching turns up a few:
Are there any other notably old computers serving HTTP out there that would be fun to know about? They are seldom up for long, but it's fun to pay them a visit while they're running.
It did make me curious: do other people have old machines serving webpages? It was fun to write a webserver for a machine that predates the web by six years or so, and I have to imagine other people have set up similar sorts of things. Some web searching turns up a few:
- The author of mTCP has had a PCjr online
- There is a list of old Apple computers serving HTTP, most of them down
- www.bambi-amiga.co.uk apparently runs on an Amiga 1200
- This old thread discusses a C64 web server
Are there any other notably old computers serving HTTP out there that would be fun to know about? They are seldom up for long, but it's fun to pay them a visit while they're running.