mp3.com was originally hosted on Michael Robertson's personal hobby machine at the supercomputer center.
A little history:
Robertson was an IT intern at SDSC a few years before I got there. One of the nice things about working there was that there was a cabinet in the datacenter that staff were allowed to use to house personal servers. Hardware you brought from home, old Sparcstations you took off the surplus pile in the basement...if you had some idea that needed a system, you could put it there.
By filling out a one-page form, you could get an IP on the 192.31.21.0/24 net (which was space we got from USAF, iirc...) and permission to host whatever you wanted on your old machine in the cabinet in the back row. Obviously, you were required to swear not to do anything illegal or annoying with your root access.
When I setup my first machine there, the long cat5 cable I used to plug into the switch still had "mp3.com" on the label.
A little history:
Robertson was an IT intern at SDSC a few years before I got there. One of the nice things about working there was that there was a cabinet in the datacenter that staff were allowed to use to house personal servers. Hardware you brought from home, old Sparcstations you took off the surplus pile in the basement...if you had some idea that needed a system, you could put it there.
By filling out a one-page form, you could get an IP on the 192.31.21.0/24 net (which was space we got from USAF, iirc...) and permission to host whatever you wanted on your old machine in the cabinet in the back row. Obviously, you were required to swear not to do anything illegal or annoying with your root access.
When I setup my first machine there, the long cat5 cable I used to plug into the switch still had "mp3.com" on the label.