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66.18.227.240:8080 — A couple recent stories on Digg showed a site being hosted on an old Acer computer and another hosted on an old Apple Lisa computer, but here is a site that is hosted on an Apple Newton PDA. You can even view a current screen shot from the Newton.

Who dugg this? Made popular Sep 4, 2006

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  • waytoorandomx, on 10/12/2007, -1/+152The Digg effect will kill this server in milliseconds. Cool though.
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+114http://www.duggmirror.com/hardware/Site_hosted_on_an_Apple_Newton/

    I miss Newtons :(
  • diktator279, on 10/12/2007, -3/+114the sole purpose of my digging this article is to smell that baby burn
  • anesthesia, on 10/12/2007, -2/+84coming soon: site hosted on a toaster
  • amoirae, on 10/12/2007, -0/+80That would be the world's tiniest web page.
  • ClassicResort, on 10/12/2007, -4/+66Recipes for Digg article success --

    "_______ "Hacks" "
    "Ted Stevens blows because _________"
    "Apple is secretly developing _________"
    "_______ . The iPod Killer?"
    "Ubuntu rules because ________"
    "RI/MPAA sues (Grandma/9 year old boy/nun/dead guy/non-person)"
    "The end of _______ as we know it?"
    "New _______. But will it run Vista?"

    and now...

    "Site hosted on a ________"
  • magshot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+61"Hits: 271697" Damn... and its still alive?
  • shinynew, on 10/12/2007, -5/+40No digg doesnt hate Snakes on a Plane. They just hate Jaybob404.
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -6/+34I'd hit it
  • mc7winkie, on 10/12/2007, -5/+31I'm getting an F5 complex....
  • rebz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+26i dont think basic webcams have that kinda zoom yet.
  • bobmagoo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+23it gives a whole new meaning to the phrase "popup blocker"
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+23Hasn't been Dugg yet but I'm modding you up because it's going to be needed if this reaches the front page :)
  • GhostFreeman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+20There's no way in hell a Newton can handle all the possible diggers -- and there it goes.
  • jkleinfeld, on 10/12/2007, -1/+21digg community vs. apple newton

    not the david vs. goliath we were hoping for
  • Strangers, on 10/12/2007, -0/+19I hate how it only caches the linked page, so any links on the page are useless :(
  • vindio, on 10/12/2007, -2/+20Don't forget the ___ ways to make Firefox faster on ___ OS
  • TheKrillr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+18Maybe he just unplugged it... I'm sure he'd want to use his Newton as a PDA again after some time.
  • pcheaven2k, on 10/12/2007, -16/+34I wonder if I had a microcomputer (web server) surgically implanted in my penis and submitted it to digg what would happen faster:

    1.) It making the front page, or
    2.) Me getting the biggest boner of my life from all you pervs hitting it.
  • sixlocal, on 10/12/2007, -0/+18Amazing ____ photos.
    The most ____ ____ you will ever see.
    ___ ____ ____ Rails ____ ____ ____.
  • JeremyBanks, on 10/12/2007, -4/+19Digged?
  • remiprev, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15" ______ _______ _______ ____ ____ _____" -- submitted by kevinrose
  • frog29, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16here's a screen shot
    http://img372.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screenty8.gif
  • wisedude, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14It's already amazingly slow...... This is gonna die so fast
  • cshldoc, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14/Brag alert.

    Back in 1998-199 I, and then eventually a few other developers, wrote NPDS, which is the web service running on these ancient gems of hardware engineering. It's not entirely obvious, but much of the 'site' you're seeing is dynamically generated. In fact, the content can be edited (by hand, literally) in real time right in the Newton's Notepad.

    For details, see http://npds.free.fr/
  • jole, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12Only a Calgarian.
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+12apple newtons are the BEST EVER.
  • frog29, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10And here's another screen shot...
    http://img357.imageshack.us/my.php?image=capturefx2.gif
  • Celeron, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10My engineering professor was actually on the Newton development team.
  • rooster1056, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9RIP Newton
  • adspigot, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8I guess it's a cool idea, but given the digg factor, it's funny it was even posted, I mean it should have been titled, kill my newton. :)

    JB
  • theone3, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Awesome ____ ____
    ____ _____ Australia
  • fussili, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7lots of prominent Newton sites have been hosted on Newtons for many years :)

    They're powerful little machines.
  • frog29, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7And here's the list of packages from the site -
    http://frog29.googlepages.com/packages.htm

    And that's pretty all of the interesting stuff from the page
  • vagabond0101, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6"Ajax powered _____"
  • vitaminbmeister, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6I gotta digg this action. Makes we want to start hosting a site off my old HP Jornada, but I have an odd feelng the PocketPC OS fill crash daily.
  • Black913Hole, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Twinkies arent baked, theyre just naturally brown like that.
  • 4ndr3wk, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7i dont think hes just unplugged it, surely it would say server not there instead of connection timed out
  • Dolomite, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Top Ten Web 2.0 Websites
  • perryge, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4"Top ten _____________"
  • iLEZ, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Hey! Talk about strategic placement for viagra-ads!
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Google's cache of the site

    http://66.249.93.104/search?q=cache:w88kBB4upbQJ:66.18.227.240:8080/+http://66.18.227.240:8080/&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&client=safari
  • meez, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4@leethal

    You don't have a girlfriend, I think your comment just confirmed that.
  • therernospoons, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Anyone have a bigger screenshot? I can't see a bloody thing!
  • mlkmnz, on 10/12/2007, -7/+11Yeah. Except in commercial reality land....
  • ConradB, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4This is it people

    We need to get Apple to bring back the Newton. It's the one pioneering IT field they launched that they haven't stuck to. I know Steve Jobs killed the newton as it was John Sculley's idea - but it was a good one and we're all using PDA's and smartphones now.

    Newton 2.0 - yeah baby, bring back the beastie.
  • ortel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3leethal:
    you could post your gf's number, and i'm sure the crowd will keep her busy.... one way or another.
  • WayneGoode, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3To top (or maybe bottom) all these stories, I've just submitted one about a website hosted on a dead fly: http://digg.com/hardware/Web_Server_Hosted_not_on_an_Apple_Lisa_or_Newton_PDA_but_on_a_DEAD_FLY
  • leethal, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Picture this:

    You spent a week or so (probably more) making your unbelievably downscaled item to work the way nobody thought was possible. This is the case with this little cute portable computer. The cute little portable computer, tough, wasn't meant for handling a lot of requests - I guess the hoster esimated 50 visitors per day max.

    So, someone digg it. It becomes popular. It's starting to get more and more hits, and more and more load. The poor thing can't stand it. Hell, even large corprorate servers can get to much if they are posted on digg and suddenly becoming more trafficed than whan it was presumed to be. Everyone have heard this story by now, and everyone's clicking the link. A server is usually a rack unit with 2ghz CPU and 4 GB RAM - not an aged (but very cute) portable machine. It's buried! This is what's called the digg effect, or slashdoting if you're one of those.

    Some times I wish I could post my girlfriend on digg to shut her up.
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