Re: W3C FTP server shut down

On 16 January 2017 at 18:32, Gerald Oskoboiny <gerald@w3.org> wrote:

> We recently decommissioned our public FTP service, ftp.w3.org.
> This server had seen less and less use over the years and most of
> what it hosted is available on our web site as well, so I don't
> think it will be missed.
>
> A few of the things it hosted may not be available anywhere else
> (e.g. old Arena binaries), so I copied them to our web site and
> made a web page to show what ended up where:
>
> https://www.w3.org/2016/11/ftp-shutdown/info.html
>
> This is unlikely to be of interest to even the most dedicated Web
> history nerds; I am sending this here mostly for googlebot's
> benefit.
>
> I was surprised recently to discover a bunch of people on reddit
> spent a bunch of time trying to track down some old CERN httpd
> sources that were on our web site the whole time:
> https://www.reddit.com/r/compsci/comments/4z645h/did_
> facebook_just_invent_an_anniversary_i_havent/d6u3trr/
>
> so hopefully this web page will save someone a bunch of searching
> someday.


You're in good company...

https://kernel.org/shutting-down-ftp-services.html

Dan

ps. re findability of historical Web stuff on the site, would you consider
reviewing at least "Disallow: /History" in https://www.w3.org/robots.txt ?


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