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First Pirate Bay Server (preserve.games)
submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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First Pirate Bay server on display at the Computer Museum in Linköping, Sweden, as part of the exhibit on 50 years of file sharing.

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[–] [email protected] 67 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

the beige CDROM drive on a black panelled case is peak turn-of-the-millennium PC. Not to mention the airflow holes that are practically an afterthought.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I thought the same thing. I remembering upgraded to a light-scribe drive which was cool. I thought it would take off more but USB keys killed it.

[–] FlyingSquid 38 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

The Pirate Bay itself is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, so this is a very fitting exhibit.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago

Wow 20 years. I feel old.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Any exclusive offers for the anniversary? /s

[–] JigglySackles 11 points 2 years ago

100% off of everything!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Pirate bay still in operation?

[–] azuth 4 points 2 years ago

Yeah.

[–] ScOULaris 26 points 2 years ago

That's really cool that someone thought to preserve this and put it on display in a museum. It's like a modern historical artifact from the golden age of computing.

[–] tabular 22 points 2 years ago

I loved their old email responces to DMCA takedown requests (before US copyright law magically, retroactively, applied to Sweden).

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Who created piratebay?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Gottfrid Svartholm, Fredrik Neij, Peter Sunde https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pirate_Bay

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

What an amazing piece of history!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Now do Suprnova! Those early, end of Kazaa days were magic.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I wonder if it was donated by the founders, or recuperated from seized evidence maybe?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I would like to know that too.

[–] silentdon 2 points 2 years ago

Reminds me of my first PC