In 2006, more than 50 Swedish police officers raided eight different locations and confiscated hundreds of pieces of computer equipment as part of their cleanup operation targeting the website The Pirate Bay. Just a few years earlier, The Pirate Bay had been started on just a few servers under a bed, one of which is now on display at the Computer Museum in Linköping, Sweden.

The bed the servers were under was in the home of Gottfrid Svartholm’s parents when he, along with Peter Sunde and Fredrik Neij, launched The Pirate Bay in 2004. Founded by an anti-copyright organization called Piratbyrån (The Piracy Bureau), the file-sharing site was meant to make it easier for people to share music and video files of copyrighted material. The 2006 raid was the result of a criminal complaint filed in Sweden by the Motion Picture Association of America.

The Pirate Bay founders were found guilty of assisting copyright infringement and have appealed twice, getting their sentences reduced but their fine increased. While the men avoided jail for a while, in part by moving to other countries, they have each served time.

The server that started it all is part of the Computer Museum’s exhibit on 50 years of file sharing. It’s inclusion, according to the curator, is not an endorsement of The Pirate Bay’s illegal activities but an acknowledgement of its import in the history of file sharing and the conversation around it. One side of the server has been replaced with glass, allowing viewers to see into the machine. Inscribed on the glass, in brief, is the story of the machine itself, The Pirate Bay site, and the debate it has sparked.

In 2009, Sweden’s National Museum of Science and Technology bought and put on display another piece of The Pirate Bay’s history, a server confiscated during the 2006 raid.

Today, The Pirate Bay is hosted in the cloud instead of on physical servers, a much cheaper method, in hopes this will protect the website from hardware failures and take-downs, no matter how many more police raids they face.