wuarchive

1988-2010

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       /		   \
      /		 	    \
      |	     HERE LIES	    |
      |			    |
      |	     wuarchive      |
      |       lvl 22 	    |
      |	      Mirror	    |
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      |     killed by a     |
      |    World Wide Web   |
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      |	       2010	    |
     *|    *	  *	*   |  *
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WUArchive is now retired as an active mirror.

Once rumoured to be the cause of 10% of the early Internet's traffic, WUArchive was a repository of the popular and the esoteric. Founded with help from the National Science Foundation and the Digital Equipment Corporation, WUArchive shared it's files via FTP, Gopher, HTTP, and even NFS. It birthed the infamous wu-ftpd daemon, as well. As late as 1999 it was a Stratum 2 NTP server.

Today, the vast sprawl of public source repositories, freeware/sharewire sites, and valuable community efforts make a true, monolithic Internet Archive a task that seems quixotic. That task is better left to this new Internet of peer-sharing and clouds.

The known history of WUArchive is spotty at best. In 1997, we know it was a DEC Alpha AXP 3000 Model 400, with 192MB of RAM and 65GB of space. It was a Sun UltraSparc 2, with dual 200Mhz CPUs, 512MB of RAM, and 180GB of disk in 2001. It retired as a dual Pentium 4, with 1 GB of RAM and 1.2 TB of disk.

If you have ancient knowledge of WUArchive, please share it, to wuarchive {at} seas.wustl.edu.