Mag-Net project file server on rack
Mag-Net project file server at Monash
The Mag-Net project file server. This pioneering file server helped bring together a community of educators in the 1990's. It hosted a webserver, mailing lists and a suite of experimental projects that included a data logger, web camera, online quiz and more. This was before Department of Education even had its own website. For some educators (including this author) the Mag-Net sever provided their first serious Internet e-mail address, website and online footprint. The Mag-Net team even helped organise the first Netday in Victoria.
The file server was powered by Linux and located in the basement of the Education faculty of Monash University, Clayton Victoria. These photographs were taken when the final Mag-Net file server was finally decommissioned in 2001 and perhaps ungraciously stripped for parts.
Here is a small slideshow of the Mag-Net project.