> In the era of HTTP, you could have set up a web server in 2000 and it could still be running today, working perfectly well (even if it didn't support the very

> In the era of HTTP, you could have set up a web server in 2000 and it could still be running today, working perfectly well (even if it didn't support the very latest shiny thing). Not true in the least. It could not be further removed from reality. This is silly. People forget how terrible security was back then (not that it's orders of magnitude better now). You had to stay on top of security patches all the time. When a software update was not doable, perhaps there was a config workaround. No, the admin work was just as frenetic back then as it is now. Perhaps the stakes were even higher (root shell anyone?).