Turned out to be an interesting historical snapshot in light of the current metal prices. A pre-9/11 discussion about the then-growing, now-defunct eGold. The thing that was trying to be Bitcoin before Bitcoin.
Kind of sad that we're stuck with the one that heats the Earth because Bush/Cheney decided we couldn't have the energy efficient one.
It's a shame browser makers removed FTP:// browsing support.
FTP was a lot more fun than the homogeneous blob of HTTP we have today. I only discovered FTP transparently via web browsing and clicking around as a kid.
Anybody from CMU, tell your ITSO people to calm down, it's just a few nerds rediscovering something.
cringe
I opened the first of these at random:
http://128.237.157.9/pub/core-mp3s/
http://128.237.157.9/pub/core-mp3s/core-2000-02-25.mp3
Turned out to be an interesting historical snapshot in light of the current metal prices. A pre-9/11 discussion about the then-growing, now-defunct eGold. The thing that was trying to be Bitcoin before Bitcoin.
Kind of sad that we're stuck with the one that heats the Earth because Bush/Cheney decided we couldn't have the energy efficient one.
Ethereum is extremely energy efficient after the switch to proof of stake and ready to be used any time.
https://digiconomist.net/ethereum-energy-consumption
http://128.237.157.9/pub/ubuntu/ubuntu/ubuntu/ubuntu/ubuntu/...
It's a shame browser makers removed FTP:// browsing support.
FTP was a lot more fun than the homogeneous blob of HTTP we have today. I only discovered FTP transparently via web browsing and clicking around as a kid.
http://128.237.157.9/pub/ubuntu/ubuntu/ubuntu/ubuntu/ubuntu/...
Deepest level
Feels a bit badger-badger-badger-badger...
Thaz my name, don't wear it out.
Hey, a scene.org mirror! Does anyone know if this Opiate is Thomas Knak? This one sounds a lot like him:
http://128.237.157.9/pub/scene.org/music/artists/opiate/opia...
https://www.discogs.com/artist/401-Opiate
Edit: fun, they have my old hippocamp album too :) http://128.237.157.9/pub/scene.org/music/groups/hippocamp/hc...
Nice games music library, thanks! http://128.237.157.9/pub/HVSC/C64Music/GAMES/A-F/
The canonical source for that is https://www.hvsc.c64.org/ and it's awesome.
Some of the http://128.237.157.9/pub/core-mp3s/ files are an interesting record of the past.
Oh my goodness I completely forgot about Knoppix.
How come? This is golden standard for secure computing: read only os image. Immutable by laws of physics heheh
Why is this noteworthy in 2026?
Yeah I’m also not sure what I’m supposed to be looking at. Maybe just the fact that it’s still running in 2026 is what’s interesting?
Big Amiga fans (and still are) from what I see. =)
ftp://128.237.157.9/pub
nice!