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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 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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 1 year ago

Wow 20 years. I feel old.

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

Any exclusive offers for the anniversary? /s

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

100% off of everything!

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

Pirate bay still in operation?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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

[–] vulgarcynic 5 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

What an amazing piece of history!

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

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I would like to know that too.

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

Reminds me of my first PC

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