Just found this epic channel! This was quite entertaining 
Part of me really hates that I missed the golden age of BBS.
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Fun find: https://marginalia-search.com/
it's a search engine designed to find niche things rather than what's most popular
* has filters for blogs, forums, smallweb, and it doesnt hide stuff just for being old
* really good for finding community made stuff and hobbyist stuff
* prioritises non commercial content
It's really a different use case entirely to things like google, but has so much more interesting content not just generic seo made articles
#SmallWeb #RetroWeb #AntiCorporate #AntiCapitalist
Marginalia SearchMarginalia Search Engine - Marginalia SearchMarginalia Search is a small independent do-it-yourself search engine for surprising but content-rich websites that never ask you to accept cookies or subscribe to newsletters. The goal is to bring you the sort of grass fed, free range HTML your grandma used to write.
Reminder: If you have a website you can put my 88x31 banner on it if you like!!
https://zelda.zone/fan-art/zelda-zone-88x31-blueylewis/
Let's be a web ring again!
We're poking around old 90s websites and enjoying the #nostalgia over on https://zelda.zone/live
There is a gopher client available on the App Store.
App StoreGopher Client"gopher n. 1. Any of various short tailed, burrowing mammals of the family Geomyidae, of North America. 2. (Amer. colloq.) Native or inhabitant of Minnesota: the Gopher State. 3. (Amer. colloq.) One who runs errands, does odd-jobs, fetches or delivers documents for office staff. 4. (computer tech.)…
Opening the comments section for my review of Sakuna of Rice and Ruin. (Game was reviewed before I had one.)
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https://antares.neocities.org/blog/review-sakuna-of-rice-and-ruin.html
#SakunaOfRiceAndRuin #neocities #indieweb / #retroweb
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https://antares.neocities.org/blog/review-sakuna-of-rice-and-ruin.html
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antares.neocities.org[Review] Sakuna of Rice and
RuinAntares forces a princess of child-like stature to toil in manual labor and sets the language of her complaints to Japanese. (Review of a hybrid farming sim and platformer.)
Live3D is a plug-in that allows Netscape Navigator 3.0+ to display VRML worlds directly on a Web page.
https://share.nergahak.co.za/Netscape/Live3D/
share.nergahak.co.zaIndex of /Netscape/Live3D
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while we're here lets round out this collection of 2002 web browsers with Konqueror 3
the progenitor of WebKit and Blink, which are now the most popular browser engines on the planet
here's your winner of the browser wars, folks! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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the primary browser is Mozilla 0.9.9
things i forgot: Mozilla resolutely stuck close to the original Netscape UI, it was Firefox that later re-invented the UI (and made a lot of people angry and was widely regarded as a bad move)
if you're really missing the old Netscape UI, the Mozilla application suite lives on as SeaMonkey, which is still making releases!
http://www.seamonkey-project.org/
also Galeon, a native GTK UI on the mozilla engine that i actually used for a while around this time as it was slightly less bloaty than straight Mozilla, which was quite a sluggish beast compared to Netscape 4.x
mozilla never got less bloaty, PCs just got faster...
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THERE'S OUR BOY! Netscape 4.79!
not quite the last version of Netscape, but close
welp as the internet goes to shit we're primed for a surge of Web 1.0 nostalgia
it occurs to me i used the Linux version of Netscape quite a bit back in the day, and i haven't seen it in ages
such old binaries aren't going to run on a modern Linux without an equally old userspace to go with it...
so what was the last distribution to ship with Netscape?
i was a big Red Hat fan until the recent CentOS farce, lets look there
wikipedia tells us Red Hat Linux 7.3 was the last version to ship Netscape, notably not to be confused with the much newer RH*E*L which is what you'll get if you try and google it...
with the death of FTP a lot of old software has quietly disappeared off the internet with no obvious mirrors (no one got a full mirror of the Netscape FTP site??)
but there's a full retail copy of RHL 7.3 on internet archive:
https://archive.org/details/red-hat-linux-7.3/
lets fire it up in a VM!
Did a total redesign of my site recently, including a new banner, retro web icons, background patterns, and more. Late 1990s web inspired.
Have a look: https://pixelglade.net
For a long description of the banner see: https://pixelglade.net/artwork/webgraphics.html#pixelglade-banner-longdesc
#indieweb #smallweb #retroweb #webdesign #nostalgic #pixelart #ドット絵 #oldweb #gif #90s #neocities
Have a look: https://pixelglade.net
For a long description of the banner see: https://pixelglade.net/artwork/webgraphics.html#pixelglade-banner-longdesc
#indieweb #smallweb #retroweb #webdesign #nostalgic #pixelart #ドット絵 #oldweb #gif #90s #neocities
Oh yeah, I almost forgot, I have a website now that's fully written for 90's web browsers that I'm in the middle of writing. It's got downloads for computer drivers, programs, and soon to have Free Screensavers! Have a look. http://rakko.chasnah.com/
rakko.chasnah.comThe Rakko ProjectMobile unfriendly since 1996!
New #blog post about (re)reading The Hunger Games and its prequel: https://chaosworks.org/2024/hunger-games/
#retroweb #indieweb #blogpost #hungergames #bookstodon
chaosworks.org · Propaganda and polyamory: Revisiting the Hunger GamesPrompted by having read the prequel novel The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, I recently decided to re-read the Hunger Games novels. First of all, I was curious about the prequel - how can a prequel about the villain of the series tie in? The prequel tells the (love) story of a teenage Coriolanus Snow, who later becomes president (dictator would be the more appropriate term) of Panem. What an odd book to read, because how can you make a novel about an entitled narcissist, who treats people like possessions, possibly compelling? While his rise to patriotism is sometimes interesting, [...]
Does anyone have any recommendations for nifty sources of royalty-free, fun imagery of the 1990s internet? I'm working on something interesting. #retro #RetroComputing #RetroTech #RetroWeb #RetroInternet #1990s #RoyaltyFree #CreativeCommons #AskFedi
bbs.retrocampus.com
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Oh and I think we need an "ipod/mp3" device to be separate from out phones. kind of a "separate space" concept but for devices. I guess it would be unix but for devices?
okay rant done.
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That last example is me being a bit paranoid but when you have health monitors through wifi/bluetooth that people rely on, I start getting nervous of what happens if those fail. I sometimes fear what the over reliance on the new when the old was working and may still be needed.
... and of course I'm still salty about headphonejacks being removed on phones.
Even though I would consider myself a tech optimist, as I've gotten older the more I've started to see an importance on older tech and tech as well.
This is in part due to preservation, and part due to some of the short comings of newer tech such as the loss of ownership, and the lack copy.
Also that where if the "Internet Of Things(TM)" fail older methods can still work.