The Internet Is Trying to Kill This 40-Year-Old Computer. Here’s How It Fights Back.
A restored PDP-11/83 from 1983 is serving this page to you—if it survives the internet’s brute force. The owner uses Cloudflare, Varnish, and Caddy as life support, but the real threat is us. A plea to not treat a 40-year-old Unix box as a challenge reveals how the modern web has become a hostile environment for even its own history.