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Re:Ask HN: What is the oldest image online in which the link... by Retr0spectrum on Wednesday February 03, 2021 @02:24PM (#26017951)
I don't think mirrors or archives really count, in the spirit of OP's original question.
Re:Ask HN: What is the oldest image online in which the link... by mike_d on Wednesday February 03, 2021 @05:22PM (#26019960)
http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/DataSources/WWW/Servers.html

The list of all webservers used to fit on a single page, which might be a good starting point. However, at this point I believe anything still functioning might fit your definition of a "mirror" as few things still speak HTTP/0.9.

Re:Ask HN: What is the oldest image online in which the link... by curlypaul924 on Thursday February 04, 2021 @12:15PM (#26027416)
That's a great resource! Most of those links are no longer functioning, but I did find this image:

http://info.in2p3.fr./cc.gif

dated 30 Sept 1992, which is pretty old as far as the web goes.

Re:Ask HN: What is the oldest image online in which the link... by curlypaul924 on Thursday February 04, 2021 @11:54AM (#26027154)
The original question was ambiguous; it said "online" but seemed to imply "on the world wide web". I'm not going to judge whether the links I provided count; I leave that decision to the OP.

I would agree that an archive ala archive.org should be disqualified, because few people would go to that site as the original. To me, Sunet is a little more grey, because while it is an archive/mirror site, many people used it and linked to it as if it were the primary source and not just an archive site. Before the web was indexed and search engines became popular, large mirror sites were the easiest way to access a variety of content, all in one place.

Re:Ask HN: What is the oldest image online in which the link... by tpmx on Wednesday February 03, 2021 @03:21PM (#26018599)
This is sort of a special case. It's a matter of republishing using the original file metadata and file contents, using the same domain but under a different path.

(Meaning the the current maintainers could fix this by doing a single "ln -s" command, ehrm. @ acc.umu.se.)

Re:Ask HN: What is the oldest image online in which the link... by theodric on Wednesday February 03, 2021 @06:24PM (#26020598)
If your sole criterion is "file in original directory on hard drive still functioning after X years" then I doubt we're going to go back much further than the late 2000s
Re:Ask HN: What is the oldest image online in which the link... by pmiller2 on Wednesday February 03, 2021 @09:12PM (#26021768)
Not true. https://www.spacejam.com/ Has been up and unmodified since 1996.
Re:Ask HN: What is the oldest image online in which the link... by rovr138 on Wednesday February 03, 2021 @10:02PM (#26022102)
Depends how you define unmodified. There's clearly a redirect for https there.

Anyway, a previous webmaster of this site replied another time it was posted here, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23709016 if anyone's curious.

Re:Ask HN: What is the oldest image online in which the link... by Triv888 on Wednesday February 03, 2021 @07:02PM (#26020922)
That is sad if 2000 is the last year.