A 1998 Sun SPARC IPX ran until May 2001, when its owner marked the milestone with cake—and admitted the machine wasn’t doing much. Critical servers got patched and rebooted. Nine days later, a building power failure ended the experiment. It’s a tiny sysadmin lesson in the difference between uptime bragging and responsible maintenance.
Original celebration page: http://www.arpa.net/1000days.html
Full Switchboard article: https://switchboardtechservices.com/articles/ancient-web-arpa-net-baked-a-cake-for-1000-days-of-sun-uptime/
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Original celebration page: http://www.arpa.net/1000days.html
Full Switchboard article: https://switchboardtechservices.com/articles/ancient-web-arpa-net-baked-a-cake-for-1000-days-of-sun-uptime/
#ancientweb #sysadmin #unix #computinghistory
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