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[115.188.180.163]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id t17-20020a170902d29100b001db5ecb2899sm5138606plc.162.2024.02.19.19.09.04 for (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Mon, 19 Feb 2024 19:09:05 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <1577ed22-047b-4116-ad08-90f708fe913e@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2024 16:09:02 +1300 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird To: coff@tuhs.org References: <20240219195919.7929243247@minnie.tuhs.org> Content-Language: en-US From: Wesley Parish In-Reply-To: <20240219195919.7929243247@minnie.tuhs.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID-Hash: UK2EBXTKDFHNN3WPA5FUUNNGAZGURMGF X-Message-ID-Hash: UK2EBXTKDFHNN3WPA5FUUNNGAZGURMGF X-MailFrom: wobblygong@gmail.com X-Mailman-Rule-Misses: dmarc-mitigation; no-senders; approved; emergency; loop; banned-address; member-moderation; nonmember-moderation; administrivia; implicit-dest; max-recipients; max-size; news-moderation; no-subject; digests; suspicious-header X-Mailman-Version: 3.3.6b1 Precedence: list Subject: [COFF] Re: The Web Service on Minnie is 30 Years Old Today List-Id: Computer Old Farts Forum Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: Love those story manglings. "Prunella's Lustful Murderous Haiku Went Sailing In Terror" - makes as much sense as much we see on the news! Wesley Parish On 20/02/24 08:59, Warren Toomey via COFF wrote: > On Wed Feb 23 16:33, 1994, I turned on the web service on my machine > "minnie", originally minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au, now minnie.tuhs.org (aka > www.tuhs.org). The web service has been running continuously for thirty > years, except for occasional downtimes and hardware/software upgrades. > > I think this makes minnie one of the longest running web services > still in existence :-) > > For your enjoyment, I've restored a snapshot of the web site from > around mid-1994. It is visible at https://minnie.tuhs.org/94Web/ > Some hyperlinks are broken. > > ## Web Logs > > The web logs show me testing the service locally on Feb 23 1994, > with the first international web fetches on Feb 26: > > ``` > sparcserve.cs.adfa.oz.au [Wed Feb 23 16:33:13 1994] GET / HTTP/1.0 > sparcserve.cs.adfa.oz.au [Wed Feb 23 16:33:18 1994] GET /BSD.html HTTP/1.0 > sparcserve.cs.adfa.oz.au [Wed Feb 23 16:33:20 1994] GET /Images/demon1.gif HTTP/1.0 > ... > estcs1.estec.esa.nl [Sat Feb 26 01:48:21 1994] GET /BSD-info/BSD.html HTTP/1.0 > estcs1.estec.esa.nl [Sat Feb 26 01:48:30 1994] GET /BSD-info/Images/demon1.gif HTTP/1.0 > estcs1.estec.esa.nl [Sat Feb 26 01:49:46 1994] GET /BSD-info/cdrom.html HTTP/1.0 > shazam.cs.iastate.edu [Sat Feb 26 06:31:20 1994] GET /BSD-info/BSD.html HTTP/1.0 > shazam.cs.iastate.edu [Sat Feb 26 06:31:24 1994] GET /BSD-info/Images/demon1.gif HTTP/1.0 > dem0nmac.mgh.harvard.edu [Sat Feb 26 06:32:04 1994] GET /BSD-info/BSD.html HTTP/1.0 > dem0nmac.mgh.harvard.edu [Sat Feb 26 06:32:10 1994] GET /BSD-info/Images/demon1.gif HTTP/1.0 > ``` > > ## Minnie to This Point > > Minnie originally started life in May 1991 as an FTP server running KA9Q NOS > on an IBM XT with a 30M RLL disk, see https://minnie.tuhs.org/minannounce.txt > > By February 1994 Minnie was running FreeBSD 1.0e on a 386DX25 with 500M > of disk space, 8M of RAM and a 10Base2 network connection. I'd received a copy > of the BSDisc Vol.1 No.1 in December 1993. According to the date on the file > `RELNOTES.FreeBSD` on the CD, FreeBSD 1.0e was released on Oct 28 1993. > > ## The Web Server > > I'd gone to a summer conference in Canberra in mid-February 1994 (see > pg. 29 of https://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Documentation/AUUGN/AUUGN-V15.1.pdf > and https://minnie.tuhs.org/94Web/Canberra-AUUG/cauugs94.html, 10am) > and I'd seen the Mosaic web browser in action. With FreeBSD running on > minnie, it seemed like a good idea to set up a web server on her. > > NCSA HTTPd server v1.1 had been released at the end of Jan 1994, see > http://1997.webhistory.org/www.lists/www-talk.1994q1/0282.html > It was the obvious choice to be the web server on minnie. > > ## Minnie from Then to Now > > You can read more about minnie's history and her hardware/software > evolution here: https://minnie.tuhs.org/minnie.html > > I obtained the "tuhs.org" domain in May 2000 and switched minnie's > domain name from "minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au" to "minnie.tuhs.org". > > Cheers! > Warren > > P.S. I couldn't wait until Friday to post this :-)