Ten Servers that Changed the World
I just found out about Ten Servers that Changed the World.
The funny thing is the box that made first place: Google’s very first server, a Sun Ultra 2 with two 200 MHz CPUs and 256 MB of RAM. I had no idea.
Why is this so funny? Because I have a Sun Ultra 2, myself. It used to host my website and was my e-mail server from December 2003 till September 2005, when the Internet provider where it was set up (in Vienna, Austria) decided to shut down. The server is still in Austria right now — sadly sitting turned off in a closet at a friend’s place.
My Ultra 2 has two 300 MHz CPUs and 512 MB of RAM and is thus better equipped than Google’s original server. I find that quite amusing — then again, I’m a Unix geek. 
