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I don't think mirrors or archives really count, in the spirit of OP's original question.

tpmx 6y ago
This is sort of a special case. It's a matter of republishing using the original file metadata and file contents, using the same domain but under a different path. (Meaning the the current maintainers could fix this by doing a single "ln -s" command, ehrm. @ acc.umu.se.)
mike_d 6y ago
http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/DataSources/WWW/Servers.html http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/DataSources/WWW/Servers.html The list of all webservers used to fit on a single page, which might be a good starting point. However, at this point I believe anything still functioning might fit your definition of a "mirror" as few things still speak HTTP/0.9.
- curlypaul924 6y ago
  That's a great resource! Most of those links are no longer functioning, but I did find this image: http://info.in2p3.fr./cc.gif http://info.in2p3.fr./cc.gif dated 30 Sept 1992, which is pretty old as far as the web goes.
theodric 6y ago
If your sole criterion is "file in original directory on hard drive still functioning after X years" then I doubt we're going to go back much further than the late 2000s
- Triv888 6y ago
  That is sad if 2000 is the last year.
- pmiller2 6y ago
  Not true. https://www.spacejam.com/ https://www.spacejam.com/ Has been up and unmodified since 1996.
  - rovr138 6y ago
    Depends how you define unmodified. There's clearly a redirect for https there. Anyway, a previous webmaster of this site replied another time it was posted here, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23709016 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23709016 if anyone's curious.
curlypaul924 6y ago
The original question was ambiguous; it said "online" but seemed to imply "on the world wide web". I'm not going to judge whether the links I provided count; I leave that decision to the OP. I would agree that an archive ala archive.org should be disqualified, because few people would go to that site as the original. To me, Sunet is a little more grey, because while it is an archive/mirror site, many people used it and linked to it as if it were the primary source and not just an archive site. Before the web was indexed and search engines became popular, large mirror sites were the easiest way to access a variety of content, all in one place.

tpmx 6y ago

This is sort of a special case. It's a matter of republishing using the original file metadata and file contents, using the same domain but under a different path. (Meaning the the current maintainers could fix this by doing a single "ln -s" command, ehrm. @ acc.umu.se.)

mike_d 6y ago

http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/DataSources/WWW/Servers.html http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/DataSources/WWW/Servers.html The list of all webservers used to fit on a single page, which might be a good starting point. However, at this point I believe anything still functioning might fit your definition of a "mirror" as few things still speak HTTP/0.9.

curlypaul924 6y ago
That's a great resource! Most of those links are no longer functioning, but I did find this image: http://info.in2p3.fr./cc.gif http://info.in2p3.fr./cc.gif dated 30 Sept 1992, which is pretty old as far as the web goes.

theodric 6y ago

If your sole criterion is "file in original directory on hard drive still functioning after X years" then I doubt we're going to go back much further than the late 2000s

Triv888 6y ago
That is sad if 2000 is the last year.
pmiller2 6y ago
Not true. https://www.spacejam.com/ https://www.spacejam.com/ Has been up and unmodified since 1996.
- rovr138 6y ago
  Depends how you define unmodified. There's clearly a redirect for https there. Anyway, a previous webmaster of this site replied another time it was posted here, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23709016 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23709016 if anyone's curious.

curlypaul924 6y ago

The original question was ambiguous; it said "online" but seemed to imply "on the world wide web". I'm not going to judge whether the links I provided count; I leave that decision to the OP. I would agree that an archive ala archive.org should be disqualified, because few people would go to that site as the original. To me, Sunet is a little more grey, because while it is an archive/mirror site, many people used it and linked to it as if it were the primary source and not just an archive site. Before the web was indexed and search engines became popular, large mirror sites were the easiest way to access a variety of content, all in one place.