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Ten Years of Silverfir.net

More than ten years ago, I registered the silverfir.net domain name. From its humble beginnings as debian server at my parents house, to several stints at various friends’ houses, to the multi-state distributed network it is now (WA, CA, VA), it has served me and my friends well — and will continue to, long into the future.

In this time, silverfir has been the home of my blog and many friends’ blogs and personal website projects. Its various servers have served as file servers, a development platforms, web hosts, and learning devices. It has been hacked once, but there wasn’t much interesting to see, I’m glad to say.

From the whois records:

Domain Name: SILVERFIR.NET
Created On: 20-Mar-2003 00:01:37 UTC
Last Updated On: 25-Dec-2011 01:27:54 UTC
Expiration Date: 19-Mar-2015 23:01:37 UTC
Sponsoring Registrar: Vitalwerks Internet Solutions, LLC / No-IP.com
Registrant Name: McElroy, Ryan

One Response to “Ten Years of Silverfir.net”

  1. Chris Vincent Says:

    I don’t think the design for Checksum Arcanius has changed, except of course the addition of Like buttons! I remember back in the day when we had our programming/politics/philosophy chat group on AIM. Besides you there was Bobby and Scott. I met Scott in person shortly after moving to SF, as he was living in Palo Alto at the time, and I met Bobby in person on a random vacation to Seattle. We should get lunch sometime and I’ll have completed the trifecta.

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