Come along as we take a journey back to 1998 to learn about a small company called Cobalt Networks that changed the Internet as we knew it.

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00:00 — 1998
01:11 — Cobalt Networks
02:22 — Company beginnings
02:32 — Qube 2700
03:38 — RaQ server appliance
04:42 — Acquisition by Sun Microsystems
05:02 — Cobalt's legacy
05:24 — Cobalt RaQ 3
06:06 — First boot
07:14 — Hardware overview
08:55 — Second RaQ boot
11:02 — Second RaQ hardware
11:32 — Future plans
11:51 — Outro

#90s #server #internet

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Cobalt Networks revolutionized web hosting in the late 1990s with their RaQ server appliances, making web servers accessible to small businesses and ISPs through plug-and-play functionality and graphical interfaces. Founded by ex-Apple employees in 1996, the company created affordable, Linux-based 1U rack servers that could be deployed in minutes without extensive technical expertise. Their success helped establish Linux as a viable server platform and influenced the future of easily deployable web infrastructure before being acquired by Sun Microsystems for $2 billion in 1999.

This Web Server Changed The Internet: The Cobalt RaQ