"Just days prior to the release of the STAR report that filled headlines back in the 1990's our operations team installed and configured twenty DEC Alpha's. The assumption was that we were going to see some seriously high volume and needed web servers capable of processing the spikes. As some of you may recall, that day's web volume was indeed massive. The infrastructure setup at the congressional website choked within a short period of time, and soon even large media outlets were failing to keep up with the requests.
"I vividly remember quietly listening to one of the many operation status calls that day, when someone interrupted the conversation and notified us that a person from the Congressional office was being patched into the call. The question posed to the OPS personnel by this gentleman went something like this: 'You're one of the few sites still delivering the report. How do we get a machine like yours...?'"
