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by miskin 1609 days ago
We ran our Java Users Group website in 1998 on 486SX with 16MB of RAM. It was running Slackware and website was served by Apache + JServ (this was before Tomcat existed) + MySQL. When I was sitting in the office where the "server" was located, I could hear when we had visitors - HDD was frantically swapping to switch between Apache and MySQL. It's hard to compare to the luxury we have with servers today.