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Pirate Bay’s First Ever Server Is Now A Museum Piece
This simple server is now on a permanent display.
We highly doubt that museums were on the mind of Gottfrid Svartholm, Peter Sunde and Fredrik Neij when they started file sharing site The Pirate Bay in 2004. The original site, which was run from Svartholm’s parent’s house in Sweden, was shut down just two years later by The Motion Picture Association of America. Somehow though, court cases, imprisonment and impossibly steep fines have all failed to keep other iterations of the site from shutting down. And though it’s no longer running, the project’s first server has been enshrined at the Computer Museum in Linköping, Sweden. Learn more about this here.
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