clipped from: stooge.myftp.org Okay, so my neighbor was moving out, and she wanted to sell some stuff. I went there for some furniture, and I noticed an ancient-looking desktop lying around. I enquired, and she said "it's a very old computer - I don't think it's capable of doing anything anymore. So I'll trash it." I believed I could make it work, so I asked for it. She happily handed over the machine to me, for free!
Now I had this lovely old legacy machine! It's an Acer Aspire, manufactured around the year 1997 (about nine years old now).
It came preloaded with windows 98 Second Edition. I erased windows 98 and installed Puppy Linux on it. I wasn't able to configure the built-in httpd webserver on puppy though. So I replaced it with Damn Small Linux, which "hanged" my machine once. So I finally went back to my old friend Ubuntu, but in server mode this time. Now I operate this machine only by passing few commands on a black screen. No GUI, no role for mouse and clicks.
Many people laughed at me when I expressed my desire to host websites from this old desktop. Not even a single person agreed that this old machine can be put to good use.
And the result is this page! This page is being hosted from the same old desktop machine that you see in the pic above, and it confirms that even ancient computers are capable of hosting websites!
I'm so amazed myself, and wouldn't like it at all if such legacy machines are thrown away just because they can't handle the heavy operating systems of current times. So I'm sharing my method of hosting website on such legacy computers.
This website intends to enable anyone with a computer and an average IQ to host websites from it.