(
http://ftp.rodents-montreal.org/mouse/blah/).  I
don't recall why I
 initially started running it; the most plausible reason I can think of
 offhand is to shut up people who were whining about having to
 (horrors!) use something other than a Web browser to look at my stuff. 
 I've been using a web browser to transfer files from anonymous FTP sites
 for years, as have many others.  Why didn't they just use an ftp:// URL?