- From: Gerald Oskoboiny <gerald@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2017 10:32:17 -0800
- To: public-webhistory@w3.org
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. -- Gerald Oskoboiny http://www.w3.org/People/Gerald/ World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) http://www.w3.org/ tel:+1-604-906-1232 mailto:gerald@w3.org
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