Aug 1999
The server that burned in the Yellow Villa
August heat, no AC. The only server, holding the love lives of 43,000 teenagers, is glowing. Rickard pulls the plug.
There was a smell. Not fire. More like … you know when someone forgets the hair straightener in the bathroom and it lies there frying against a towel? … This obviously doesn't work. But it obviously works.
- ”August heat. Halland. 1999. No AC. Do the maths.”
- The Swedish Internet Foundation (Internetstiftelsen), 2014: in summer the server made strange noises, he had to open the window, and ”once it actually burned up”.
- ”I was twenty-five. I had no company, no investors, no business plan and definitely no plan B.”
Sources: Internetstiftelsen 2014 · Internetmuseum 2015