Geocities Cage at the Exodus Datacenter

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Post by imaginator » Fri, Nov 25, 2016, 1:52 PM UTC

Geocities Cage at the Exodus Datacenter
detritus.org

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Post by stpe » Fri, Nov 25, 2016, 2:09 PM UTC

Not sure what's the best find, the data center article or the author's boy band-esque photo: http://www.detritus.org/mike/pics/inpark.jpg

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Post by staked » Fri, Nov 25, 2016, 2:12 PM UTC

I love seeing stuff like this. Though I'd be a happy man if I never had to see the words "Veritas Volume Manager" again. Definitely one of my least favorite pieces of software from that era.

I worked for a company around this same time that had servers in the NJ Exodus data center. Used to have to head up there once a month to swap out tapes in the Sun L11000.

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Post by RamenJunkie_ » Fri, Nov 25, 2016, 2:12 PM UTC

And then years later you could download all of Geocities as a few hundred GB Torrent.

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Post by AWildDHHAppears » Fri, Nov 25, 2016, 2:18 PM UTC

We used Exodus, too, at Infoseek. I remember seeing Hotmail there as well. Our servers were worse!

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Post by tyingq » Fri, Nov 25, 2016, 2:20 PM UTC

staked wrote: post #3

I love seeing stuff like this. Though I'd be a happy man if I never had to see the words "Veritas Volume Manager" again. Definitely one of my least favorite pieces of software from that era. I worked for a company around this same time that had servers in the NJ Exodus data center. Used to have to head up there once a month to swap out tapes in the Sun L11000.

Brought back some memories for me as well. In corporate IT, unix sysadmins had to know how to manage multiple different hardware architectures and operating systems that all did things different. AIX, Solaris, HPUX, Ultrix, etc, all with different filesystems, raid hw/sw, command paths, and so on.

That picture of the ethernet hornet's nest too. Ugh. At least it wasn't AUI cabling.

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Post by Overtonwindow » Fri, Nov 25, 2016, 2:27 PM UTC

Does anyone know of an article like this about the dial in modem systems and infrastructure for some of the early dialup services?

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Post by acveilleux » Fri, Nov 25, 2016, 2:34 PM UTC

So much memories from that era. I saw my first 1TB storage array back then, it was an EMC Clariion fibre channel raid box, it cost nearly 1m$ and it was a full rack of 9GB dual-ported 15k RPM disks.

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Post by alex_hitchins » Fri, Nov 25, 2016, 2:40 PM UTC

Overtonwindow wrote: post #7

Does anyone know of an article like this about the dial in modem systems and infrastructure for some of the early dialup services?

I worked for a large UK organisation that had cut back on their dialup access but still had 50 or so modems in racks for field workers to dial in to to get their email etc. Also some site to site links remained a dialup connection.

Sorry, no fancy pictures or anything interesting, just reminded me of the time.

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Post by joezydeco » Fri, Nov 25, 2016, 2:47 PM UTC

"As you can imagine (and see from these pictures), this equates to a whole bunch of ethernet cables. Cable management gets increasingly difficult to grasp each time a new box is added to the mix"

Eeeeeek. I'm not in IT and I got the sinking stomach feeling when looking at this.

Thankfully there is https://www.reddit.com/r/cableporn/ to cure that.