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- Waterluvian 2y agoWaiting for like 8 seconds for a website to load, only for it to tell me it’s “old school” and can’t handle my phone was kind of hilarious.
- op00to 2y agoDoes it work with lynx?
- Waterluvian 2y agoUnfortunately I have no clue. I’m running Mosaic.
- zoky 2y agoIt does indeed, and as a matter of fact that seems to be the only way I can view it on my phone.
- scrps 2y agoThat's... That's something. I can't tell if the fact that you had to do that is exceptionally modern or exceptionally old school.
- bittwiddle 2y agoI had the same thing. Tested on desktop for others in the game boat: its a story about repairing an old macintosh. Some pretty nice scrolling effects.
- dvt 2y agoMaybe it's just me, but I find the scrolling effects obnoxious and floaty. Like I never quite have control over what element I'm scrolling. Just imprecise enough to make it annoying af.
- cwillu 2y agoStruggled pretty badly on my pc too.
- emsign 2y agoMaybe it's a reference to the old school modem speeds back when you could take a few sips from your cup of coffee while watching a website load and build up.
- causality0 2y agoThis is why mobile browsers need genuine user agent control, not just some crappy "pwetty pwease give me the desktop version mistuh servuh" checkbox.
- simsla 2y agoFirefox mobile does (with add-ons).
- self_awareness 2y agoOn Android only I think?
- causality0 2y agoUnfortunately it does nothing for the View Window and sites still detect mobile.
- abawany 2y agoWorked well on my Pixel tablet running GrapheneOS and Fennec in landscape mode. Smooth and fast.
- petermcneeley 2y agoCool page. There is quite a bit of aliasing on the wireframe. Three.js simply uses the anti-aliasing setting from the getContext call for webgl. The default here will be 4 samples [1]. I think it would have been best to do a custom super sampling for the wireframe model. [1] https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/main:third_party/blink/renderer/platform/graphics/gpu/drawing_buffer.cc;drc=8ba75c5778d532e95412bdb600385bfd4b15293b;bpv=1;bpt=1;l=938 https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/main:thi...
- amelius 2y agoMaybe this was the intent, since the original Mac did not do anti-aliasing?
- petermcneeley 2y agoThere is still anti-aliasing its just with so much periodic wireframe you still see edges and patterns.
- fallinghawks 2y agoThis was pretty fascinating. I actually still have my 128K Mac, as well as an Apple sweatshirt, that my dad bought for me in 1985. I lugged that sucker around university. Last I looked (about 8 years ago) it had some kind of boot error, not sure if it's the same one as Giogi's. Now I'm tempted to unearth it and revisit.
- fzzzy 2y agoReplace the rifa cap, clean the floppy heads with isopropyl, lube the floppy rails with lithium grease, and it should last another 40 years.
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- thisisjaymehta 2y agoThe website is soo cool!!!!
- system2 2y agolol 36 and midlife crisis.
- causality0 2y agoI hate when elitist jerks decide my greater than 1080p phone display is somehow inadequate for showing their grand artistic vision and I'm not allowed to look at their photos of an old Mac unless I do so exactly the way they want me to.
- simsla 2y agoI get not wanting to redesign everything for portrait mode, but a simple "This page was mainly designed with desktops in mind, please turn your phone to landscape" would've done the trick just as well.
- lagniappe 2y agoPhone people don't read, that's nonsense. Just put a series of next and I Agree buttons that does it for them.
- eichin 2y agoor my portrait mode desktop system. Especially when "view source" shows all of the content got downloaded, it's just refusing to render. Get over it, scroll bars exist.
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- chuckadams 2y agoRight now, someone else has that number.
- jazzyjackson 2y agoone more time!
- self_awareness 2y ago$Deity, bless browser reader modes. They make our life less miserable. Amen. Also, it seems that we have to say goodbye to some basic browser features, like "Print". Nobody cares about the printing stylesheet anymore.
- netghost 2y agoIf you're curious about how the page was put together, or peeved it didn't load on your phone, check out this article describing how the author made it: https://tympanus.net/codrops/2024/04/08/case-study-84-24/ https://tympanus.net/codrops/2024/04/08/case-study-84-24/
- darepublic 2y agoI gotta say this is one of the best ever position sticky, scroll animation fests I have ever browsed. It was smooth the whole time, and handled window resize by basically saying 'fu' to the user I'm going to start from the beginning. However, saying all this, I think it's a pretty terrible form for giving importance to the content. It just continually distracts from the words on the page, and I end up just playing with the scroll toy instead of caring about what the article is about. Maybe sour grapes, because I struggled with similar web projects in the past. So I have true admiration for the makers of this but I feel like it turns the page from some article about the macintosh to a cool scroll experience.
- jakeogh 2y agoNice. He didn't say which vintage electronics store in Tucson, but there is a good chance it's Elliott Electronics... an electronics store with big surplus (tools/aviation/machinery/everythingelse) store under the same roof.
- croemer 2y agoDeliberately wasting your time on mobile, taking 10 seconds before telling you to view on desktop. Doesn't even respect desktop mode. Hard down vote. Very unpleasant experience.
- denkmoon 2y agoLoaded this in a 9:16 aspect ratio window and got a blank page showing '55' in the centre. Which is not the result of 84-24.
- drekipus 2y agoI was wondering this same thing... It's just off by 5, but still... Must be written in JavaScript
- Dwedit 2y agoVery mean webpage, you are forbidden from reading the article if you use side-by-side browser windows on 1920x1080. On another note, the Mac having only 128K of RAM was somewhat balanced out by having much of the operating system code (QuickDraw, etc) live in ROM instead.
- GeoAtreides 2y agoA design so cool and principled nobody talks or cares about the content.
- pixelpoet 2y agoWith enough of these submission titles lacking any kind of useful description, HN is just going to be a random click-lottery. No one seems to care though and it's becoming increasingly frequent, maybe I'm in the wrong place.
- spixy 2y agoYes. Stupidest rule on HN.
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- eps 2y agoThe page shows up completely broken on an iPad. It's partly clipped, doesn't scroll, etc.
- n_ary 2y agoI have read through the whole site except the color restoration section. Unfortunately, I am still missing the meaning of this “84-24”. Anyone care to eli5 please?
- fzzzy 2y agoThe macintosh was released in 1984 and the year is now 2024.