Mortis
| Mortis | |
| URL | http://mortis.com/ |
| Status | Offline |
| Archiving status | Lost |
| Archiving type | Unknown |
| IRC channel | #archiveteam-bs (on hackint) |
Mortis was a website that gained popularity on online image boards in the early 2010s.
The site was originally registered in 1997 and is said to have hosted terabytes of data with the largest file being 39 Gigabytes in size. This value was allegedly figured out by "analyzing the source code" of the site, even though the front page is reported to have been minimalistic login screen.[1] In fact, however, it was actually figured out by querying the NZBKing database of Usenet posts.[2]
This site was said to contain extremely large files since 1997. However, this is not true either: as you can see,[2] it had only 150 GB total at very most. Moreover, all of these files (including the infamous 39 GB file named «DIEANY1414.par2») were not uploaded until May 16 2011,[3] so, there is no proof that any of these files was stored at mortis.com much earlier than that particular date, let alone 1997. This misconception arose from misinterpretation of mortis.com domain registration and ownership records.[4]
The WHOIS records say that mortis.com domain was first registered in 1997, which was, in turn, misunderstood as proof of existence of this site in 1997 and it being used to store and distribute unusually large amount of data (namely, terabytes) at the same time, thereby leading to emergence of the urban legend.[1]
To summarize, mortis.com was probably some niche site for close friends of its owner, or perhaps, a private e-mail server. The legend of mortis.com being mysterious storage of terabytes of data from dial-up Web 1.0 era has no information to back it up, and most popular arguments in favor of this hypothesis are most probably misinterpreted pieces of information taken out of context.
The website «mortis.cc» is a parody site and there is no evidence it is affiliated with mortis.com .