As someone just getting access to the net in '94/'95 and also learning programming via Turbo Pascal around that time, ftp://x2ftp.oulu.fi was a lot more important! Now sadly gone.
(https://groups.google.com/g/comp.os.msdos.programmer/c/Kcoc7...)
(https://groups.google.com/g/comp.os.msdos.programmer/c/Kcoc7...)
Any particular reason there seemed like a bunch of ftp sites hosted in Finland?
But since this on top of HN I hope someone who actually knows will show up soon. :)
The FUNET though is the Finnish university research network and thus I believe the Funet FTP server has always resided on a server funded by the government but still mostly maintained by volunteers.