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by CursedSilicon 477 days ago
Cobalt Networks was insanely popular in the web space, as far as I can tell it might have also been the first widespread "Linux appliance" (though a FreeBSD based one beat it to market in 1996 though was far less popular)

In hindsight it's any wonder Sun bought and trashed them. Cheap MIPS (later x86) web boxes running Linux probably absolutely ate into their margins in certain markets