What is Digg?156 Comments
- SeBBBe, on 10/12/2007, -2/+189Lets see for how long it survives digg :-) I'll update with more info on the status of the server.
- merreborn, on 10/12/2007, -6/+178Of course it died. It's one of the weakest webservers in the world.
- SeBBBe, on 10/12/2007, -1/+155Funny is, I can hear the floppy drive working every time someone accesses it :-)
Usually, an old 286 lives in a world of its own. But this one is out on adventure. And I think it likes it! - leobaby, on 10/12/2007, -10/+163Am I the only one that thinks submitting the actual site to digg was an incredibly stupid idea. Maybe you could have at least linked to an article about the server.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+144Do you offer any hosting services?!
- SeBBBe, on 10/12/2007, -3/+134"Am I the only one that thinks submitting the actual site to digg was an incredibly stupid idea. Maybe you could have at least linked to an article about the server."
Lol, there is no article. I just set up this server and submitted to Digg myself :-) - TomP, on 10/12/2007, -9/+134and its died :(
- Mootabolife, on 10/12/2007, -0/+92One of these days someone is going to setup a punchcard server that will blow this one away.
- SeBBBe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+64http://youtube.com/watch?v=5mb2LKSQhn4
Here's a video of it dutifully serving the page ^^ :-) - SeBBBe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+64It's not overloaded, it's rarely getting more than one hit at a time. That's its highest speed ;-)
You ask me why? Well, it's proof of concept, plus it's fun to do and educational about networking. - swifty12, on 10/12/2007, -4/+60http://duggmirror.com/hardware/1987_computer_serving_a_site_from_floppy/
- turrican, on 10/12/2007, -0/+55"Which brings up my question....why even do this"
...because you *can*. - barthosch, on 10/12/2007, -0/+53Web 0.2
- Fredx, on 10/12/2007, -2/+49imagine the sound if this story hits the front page
- Rigbymatt, on 10/12/2007, -1/+47reminds me of that one home made server that was on slashdot, this guy made his own 1mhz or less processor out of wires
- SwiftJ, on 10/12/2007, -2/+45Apparently no Weird Al fans around here...
- steve693, on 10/12/2007, -0/+44We probably melted the floppy. :(
- SeBBBe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+40It's more wonderful than ever before :-D Even if too much traffic brings it down, a quick reboot gets it back to business again.
- carmaa, on 10/12/2007, -0/+37Poor little thing. On the front page of digg, I think I can smell the smoke from the floppydrive... Hang on, lill' buddy!
- 256byteram, on 10/12/2007, -0/+37"reminds me of that one home made server that was on slashdot, this guy made his own 1mhz or less processor out of wires"
http://www.homebrewcpu.com - raptordrew, on 10/12/2007, -0/+35God, I feel bad for opening the page and contributing to the downfall of a once wonderful machine...
- leobaby, on 10/12/2007, -0/+34if you have to ask why, you'll never understand
- rokinroj, on 10/12/2007, -2/+36Right, cause it takes a brain surgeon to host a site on a 4 ghz, dual core, blade with 8 gigs of RAM. Thats like saying "Oh look, I can make my Corvette go fast!" The real mechanics are the ones that can race their in 1974 Datsun.
- Gregd, on 10/12/2007, -3/+36"Which brings up my question....why even do this"
.............which brings up the question......why are you even here? - aaronm67, on 10/12/2007, -1/+31Wow...you guys need to learn to take a joke. It's a Weird Al Yankovic song called "It's All About the Pentiums." He was making a joke. It was funny. Laugh.
- merreborn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+29Any chance you could get the thing to cache everything in that meg of ram? :p In fact, the old ramdisk util should work, no?
That disk access barier is a huge bottleneck. You could probably get that thing serving 100 pages/sec if you could hold everything in ram. - SeBBBe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+27LOL! Yea, lost the cap for that key.. BTW It's an original IBM Model M keyboard (came with that PC) - arguarbly the best keyboard to date. Im getting an adaptor so I can use it on my new laptop.
- azra3l, on 10/12/2007, -1/+26why not?
- FyberOptic, on 10/12/2007, -1/+25SwiftJ is right, it's totally from a song, guys.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+25You're all failures.
- Gregd, on 10/12/2007, -1/+20@bentopia
Your first mistake is thinking that anyone on digg has rhythm.. - carmaa, on 10/12/2007, -0/+18Wow. I think my Ethernet card must feel weird communicating with this thing, it's almost like if I picked up my mobile and called Alexander Graham Bell. Too bad it seems like both are deceased at the moment...
- jtbuck, on 10/12/2007, -0/+17Go on wit yo bad self.
I keep a running clone of my first 486 rockin win 3.1 just for laughs, and just because I could. There's just something about the unique nostalgia of expired hardware. - Bentopia, on 10/12/2007, -1/+17Read it out loud. And with Rythm.
- nroose, on 10/12/2007, -4/+19I have a couple of old Palm 3m devices kicking around. Perhaps I could set them up as a server farm.
- Snakedal337, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14Your database is a disaster! Your waxin your modem, tryin to make it go fasta!
That song could be the nerd anthem.
What kind of chip you got in there? A dorito? - semiotix, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15That's nothing. I wrote out the truth tables for the Boolean logical operators on a piece of scrap paper, attached it with a wire to my abacus, and hosted slashdot for a week once.
And I accidentally forgot NAND. - SeBBBe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13It's alive again. It's now serving a text only page.
- azra3l, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14he is smoking the expensive kind you can only afford if you save a fortune on server hardware :D
- felyduw, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11After that "the same age as me" remark I felt extremely ancient... *sigh*
- Jugalator, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Heh, I guess the only proper way to browse this site is by using something like the Contiki OS: http://www.sics.se/contiki/about-contiki.html (2 KB RAM, 40 KB ROM memory footprint)
I recall the screenshot of him running it with a web browser on a Commodore 64. Here's an FTP client on it for example: http://www.sics.se/~adam/contiki-img/contiki-1.2-devel0-desktop.png
Accessing it with a 3 GHz computer feels a bit like being a 20 year old bullying a 10 year old kid. ;-) - SeBBBe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10hahahaha, it's up. It's working hard as hell.. It handles a few requests, but far from all..
- Thunderrock, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9You could DoS that site with 5 webviews XD
- azra3l, on 10/12/2007, -18/+27and the 2006 award for "point missed by the widest possible margin" goes to user rjett!
dunno wether to digg you down for being an idiot or digg you up out of sympathy... - inkubux, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Great Digg might have killed a vintage pc
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8WE JUST SET IT ON FIRE :(
- andyrobo60, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10Well its at the top of the front page now and I think the only sound coming from the server is the sound of a 1987 computer after it has crashed.
Its nice to see a computer the same age as me doing something useful. - rivendell, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Dugg for your good taste in music!
- charlie55, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10yall are white and nerdy.
- Hurricane, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9Oh the humanity!
Why post this on Digg and be so cruel to this brave little webserver?
I bet the poor old thing has caught on fire by now. -
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