You are sure about that? The oldest machine I have seen at my University IT was a server with an uptime of 16 years. Judging be the look it was probably 30 yea

You are sure about that? The oldest machine I have seen at my University IT was a server with an uptime of 16 years. Judging be the look it was probably 30 years old. I could name you numerous services that came and went within three decades, granted that old machine did something simple (can't remember, probably a NTP server), but I am pretty sure an external service would have been more unreliable throughout that timeframe.