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by bandrami 777 days ago
One of my first jobs was writing a Perl script in 1996 that did an incredibly mundane set of checks on some routers in a datacenter (using this really cool new technology "BGP") and offered essentially a public REST API (though we didn't call it that back then) you could periodically poll to see their status. Every so often I check to see if it's still there, and it always has been. I really hope it makes it to 30 years.