For a more detailed history of Minnie, see my blog post.
Minnie has been my personal Internet server since May 1991. She started life as a 10MHz XT clone to be a a small FTP server for my Minix and amateur radio interests; here is the original announcement of the ftp site on Minnie.
In February 1994 I upgraded Minnie to 386SX running FreeBSD 1.1 and became a web server as well. As the world-wide web started in 1993, Minnie is now one of the oldest web servers still run by the same person. Here is a copy of the web site on Minnie from mid-1994.
Over time, Minnie's hardware grew until 2010 when I decided to move her into the cloud. Now she is a Linode VM with 2G of RAM and 50G of SSD disk space.
Apart from my own personal stuff, Minnie has helped provide web, FTP and e-mail services for many communities:
Minnie is fully funded out of my own pocket. She is run with minimal housekeeping; your patience is very much appreciated.
Warren Toomey, January 2026