This bought back a lot of memories for me as well, I used to work for a hosting provider in the early 2000's and we had dozens of these things both in our data

This bought back a lot of memories for me as well, I used to work for a hosting provider in the early 2000's and we had dozens of these things both in our data centre and internally for development purposes. I hadn't thought about them for years but the second I saw this article title I had flashbacks!