{"id":413,"date":"2008-01-15T17:54:01","date_gmt":"2008-01-15T22:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/413"},"modified":"2010-11-14T08:15:19","modified_gmt":"2010-11-14T13:15:19","slug":"webservers-on-vintage-apple-computers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/413\/webservers-on-vintage-apple-computers","title":{"rendered":"Vintage Apple Computer Web Servers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/oldmac.toddverbeek.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/macweb\/macweb_small.jpg\" alt=\"Apple Macintosh Mac SE Web Server\" class=\"alignright\" \/><\/a>There exist, in various pockets of the World Wide Web, dark corners in which vintage machines are tucked, quietly whirring away as they make occasional contact with the outside world.  This loose confederation of devices constitutes a New Old Web, composed of computers previously considered useless or obsolete.<\/p>\n<p>Serving HTTP from vintage computers is nothing new &#8212; it&#8217;s been link fodder since the dawn of the public Internet &#8212; but I&#8217;d like to highlight a wonderful website that maintains a directory of vintage Apple computers functioning as working web servers.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ld8.org\/servers\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/macweb\/button.gif\" alt=\"Old Apple Web Server Directory Button\" class=\"alignleft\" \/><\/a>It&#8217;s called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ld8.org\/servers\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Old Apple Web Server Directory<\/a>, and within it lie dusty nuggets of classic webitude like Grant Hutchinson\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s <a href=\"http:\/\/newton.splorp.com:8080\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hot Newton Server Action<\/a> (running on an Apple Newton PDA), Todd VerBeek&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/oldmac.toddverbeek.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mac SE Web Server<\/a> (via a SCSI Ethernet adapter), and, of course, the classic <a href=\"http:\/\/aurejac.dyndns.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mac Plus Web Server<\/a>, which serves up pages straight from a 3 1\/2&#8243; floppy disk.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/littledork.err0neous.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/macweb\/iici_small.jpg\" alt=\"Apple Macintosh Mac IIci Web Server\" class=\"alignright\" \/><\/a>There&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/ld8.org\/servers\/servers.html\" target=\"_blank\">plenty more<\/a> where that came from in the Directory, including a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lisa2.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lisa 2 web server<\/a> (in Mac mode, sadly), and more high-end affairs like a <a href=\"http:\/\/littledork.err0neous.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">IIci running Apache on NetBSD<\/a> and a <a href=\"http:\/\/macman.servebeer.com\/about_server.html\" target=\"_blank\">Mac LC 475 tucked into a desk drawer<\/a>.  Feel free to explore the Directory&#8217;s collection of links and find your own favorites (the 68030 section is especially interesting).<\/p>\n<h3>The Web World Beyond Apple<\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/macweb\/commodore_logo.png\" alt=\"Commodore Logo\" class=\"alignleft\" \/>It&#8217;s hard to find practitioners of vintage web serving more enthusiastic than the Mac faithful.  But in this wooly Web of ours, you&#8217;ll also run across web servers chugging away on other makes and models of machines, like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.c64web.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Commodores<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kl.net\/atari\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ataris<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/rubbermallet.org\/mysoftware.html\" target=\"_blank\">beyond<\/a>.  Whether you&#8217;re a Mac fan or not, please share some of your favorite web server links with us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There exist, in various pockets of the World Wide Web, dark corners in which vintage machines are tucked, quietly whirring away as they make occasional contact with the outside world. This loose confederation of devices constitutes a New Old Web, composed of computers previously considered useless or obsolete. Serving HTTP from vintage computers is nothing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,40,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-projects","category-macintosh","category-computers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}