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Nostalgia ;)
https://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/4hicqg/i_found_and_converted_this_minecraft_classic/

The original picture was very popular and always appeared in articles about the game so some of you might recognise it. I think it was the wikipedia picture for the game at one point and was used in the Guinness World Records game edition..

I found the source for the picture at http://nova225.deviantart.com/art/Minecraft-Server-060809-1-132891707 and sent Nova225 (the uploader, big thanks to them) a message. They sent me some old server files and I wrote some Java that converted the worlds into a schematic so I could import it into a 1.9 map.You can download it here. This is the first time the map has been available in almost 7 years!
mattbrox