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Sometimes I think that if it weren't for heavy cryptography and graphical interfaces, I could do so many things online even with a computer as old as this one.
by AstixAndBelix 4y ago
Sometimes I think that if it weren't for heavy cryptography and graphical interfaces, I could do so many things online even with a computer as old as this one.
I could browse a textual version of HN, Twitter, Facebook, Telegram and even post and comment things!
Sending HTTP packets to an open API has been a kids game for decades, unfortunately companies just don't want you to hack together your own solution
- NoGravitas 4y agoI've been reading Gopher under MacOS 8.1 (emulated) over the holidays, and it's been nice. Light WWW sites work in Netscape 3 on it, but you have to offload https to a proxy because it's not compatible with modern TLS.
- jacquesm 4y agoWhatever you end up using for a proxy likely has 10x the horsepower of this Mac though.
- anthk 4y ago- gopher://hngopher.com , gopher://magical.fish , http://68k.news http://68k.news and , as a sinkhole, gopher://gopherddit.com
- samtheprogram 4y agoWhat are you using for the proxy? I am interested in breathing life into a OS 9 eMac I have.
- pcurve 4y agoI used these old machines. You'd be surprised how slow these machines are even for the most basic things! Like typing, opening folders, etc. :)