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My favourite 90's style website, that's still running, is http://www.armory.com/armory.html http://www.armory.com/armory.html , complete with FTP Index and user
by raesene9 4y ago
My favourite 90's style website, that's still running, is http://www.armory.com/armory.html http://www.armory.com/armory.html , complete with FTP Index and user finger files.
- toyg 4y agoBlocked by our company filter as an "adult" resource, so you might have to add a NSFW warning there.
- mathieuh 4y agoThere's nothing actually NSFW at the link, just your filter being overzealous
- fmajid 4y agoPerhaps they are confusing it with the San Francisco Armory, a historic building the NIMBY neighbors blocked from being converted into housing so a porn company bought it instead and turned it into a production company instead.
- andreareina 4y agoNot anymore I’m afraid. Sold in 2018 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Armory https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Armory
- fragmede 4y agoThey used to host their own servers there, but it went the way of the cloud.
- fmajid 4y agoYes. I guess a few years of this was more than even the NIMBYs could take. It's now owned by some capital group seeking to build housing there, but new NIMBYs will come to the fore to block it, and the combo of declining SF real estate prices and rising interest rates may well make the project unviable, since a developer has to pay interest for a decade or more while stalling tactics delay approval.
- raesene9 4y agoCan't think why they'd add NSFW to that site, it's a plain text site primarily. I guess there may be something NSFW in the FTP archive somewhere, but I think that's probably an overactive filter.
- dspillett 4y ago> Can't think why they'd add NSFW to that site As someone already mentioned nearby in the thread it could easily be something in the “purity test” content that has tripped an automatic naughty word filter. It could even be the name of the site, depending on the location weapons and such might be considered NSFW (or for overly strict companies, not-relevant-for-work-we-dont-know-why-you-are-wanting-to-look-at-it-in-work-time!).
- arexxbifs 4y agoThe Armory is a long-time host of various purity tests[1], which is probably why it's filtered. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purity_test https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purity_test
- counttheforks 4y agoIf you'd actually checked the site you'd know it wasn't NSFW.
- Tao3300 4y agoThey'd have to be able to access it to know that...
- okasaki 4y agoCan't forget https://stallman.org/ https://stallman.org/ if we're talking about the 90s
- cm2187 4y agoTbh I'll take that over any SPA that breaks my browser default behaviour.
- sontek 4y agoMy only complaint is it goes full wide screen. If he put a limit on the width the text expands to so it was readable on large screens that would be perfect.
- bityard 4y agoNo, the page layout is likely designed to be readable on anything that speaks HTTP. Including text-based browsers, mobile devices with low bandwidth and performance, screen readers, etc. All you have to do to get the text width you want is resize your browser window.
- hgsgm 4y agoNone of those things are harmed by putting a maxwidth that limits the line length to something reasonable for the viewport size.
- fnordpiglet 4y agoHave you ever met rms? http://www.jwz.org/hacks/why-cooperation-with-rms-is-impossible.mp3 http://www.jwz.org/hacks/why-cooperation-with-rms-is-impossi...
- fragmede 4y agofor the uninitiated, you're looking for an audio file at the above link. you need to delete your HN referrer in order to do that because jwz is a "special" kind of adult.
- causi 4y agoMan I miss backspacing through a URL and sometimes hitting an FTP page with files I wasn't necessarily supposed to be able to download. Halcyon days.
- FpUser 4y agoPointing ftp client to blahblahblah.com was like a treasure hunt.
- 867-5309 4y agoor just a browser with ftp://
- beaugunderson 4y agoFunny, my first dial-up ISP was halcyon.com (later Northwest Nexus/WinStar) in the Seattle area around 1999/2000. Halcyon days indeed!
- perlgeek 4y agoDon't forget Larry Wall's page: http://www.wall.org/~larry/ http://www.wall.org/~larry/ :-)
- openplatypus 4y agoOMG, I forgot about GeekCode :)
- xeromal 4y agoMaddox is a huge ass but his site is still updated from time to time http://maddox.xmission.com/ http://maddox.xmission.com/ He has posts from 1998 to 2020 but I'd say he still actively posts. He's just run out of things to say. lol
- ckozlowski 4y agoMy gosh, I forgot about this one! Thanks for reminding me/us!