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Exhibit · Period private servers · 2008-06-02
The client of the first Chinese private server, June 2008. The oldest binary of the pserver scene of which we have a fingerprint: the HK 2007 build was running in China fifteen months before rain.
Fingerprint only we know size and hashes from period sources, not the bytes| Bytes | 446,173,153 |
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| SHA-1 | 1dac838d0b839c6422d72a03f9fdb8eb93cc181d |
| Internal date | packaging date in the distribution metadata: 2/6/2008 11:32:39 UTC, GBK encoding, declared publisher 龙驹在线. |
| Possession | Distributed by the site of the private server 龙驹在线 (Fuzhou) on 7/6/2008, the day of the open beta of the first Chinese Metin2 private server. |
| Preservation | Not acquired: we know the name, byte count and date from period distribution metadata, not the file. |
What it is
The private server 龙驹在线 (Fuzhou) opens its open beta on 7/6/2008 stating it runs on «last year's Hong Kong version», with 10× exp compared to the official server. This is the link that pushes prehistory back: the 龍駒 serverfiles were already in the hands of Chinese operators by June 2008. The operator is the same one throughout the chain mt2ol → 91 LongJu → 5imt2 → Longju3 (registration module «注册--5I倚天2», top-up «龙驹在线@倚天2», adjacent Fujian IPs).
The metadata shows the client was also circulating on Chinese peer-to-peer networks: the first material evidence of that channel for this subject.
The evidence
- F Period distribution metadata, dated and mutually consistent.
- F The private server's homepage featured the client on 7/6/2008, the day of the open beta.