You ddos'ed your university home page. ;)

No the Atari is still rendering to this day!

Maybe he'll get to use the "that would be impressive except if they had known what they were looking for,they would have seen it written on my dorm room window" quote later today.

Lol, I also have some povray renders still online on my uni page... Not linking though ;-)

I feel like the privileged guy in the room, as I was running POV-Ray on a fancy new SPARCstation back in those days.

Seems like the Atari was repurposed into doing duty as a webserver…

(Kidding. Posting links on HN is basically a community load test.)

I find it surprising that it would cause issues. There are as of this writing only 162 comments in the thread, which was posted 17 hours ago, and the (simple!) web page is still very slow to load. How much traffic slows down a static web page with a single image? Even if we stipulate a quite manageable 100 requests per second, that means 6 million people read this thread and decided to click that link. 6 million people and only 162 left a comment? Can that be right?

>Even if we stipulate a quite manageable 100 requests per second,

Depends on the situation, but 100 requests/seconds sound like a lot to me (depending on how heavy the processing is, of course). And every page visit generates 8 requests, so that's "just" 12 people visiting per second.

What were you modelling? Cyclopropane? I did something looking similar using a Fortran tool called Gaussian not long after.