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Could this claim the title of “oldest host on the public internet serving traffic”?

At first I thought “~100 days, so what?” - but that was before I knew this was an 8088 managing to hold up to even just the background noise of the modern net (portscans, etc). It’s surviving being slashdotted by HN. Very impressive.




Maybe, with some qualifications. A machine that is powered on but serves almost no traffic would also qualify but not be terribly interesting.

I'm just happy it's been surviving the hug of death for 12+ hours now. Given the age and software that might be the true accomplishment.




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