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This is novice stuff. I write my blog by modifying the filesystem's binary structure by hand with a hex editor. There is no Javascript or CSS whatsoever and th
by inopinatus 2y ago
This is novice stuff. I write my blog by modifying the filesystem's binary structure by hand with a hex editor. There is no Javascript or CSS whatsoever and the document uses only elements, attributes, and behaviours that were both described in the original HTML v1.1 DTD and that have continued to appear in every intervening IETF, W3C, and WHATWG issuance since then. Many of the elements are therefore deprecated and currently unimplemented in all evergreen browsers. Nevertheless I live in firm expectation of their eventual reinstatement. The HTTP service is one I nicked from a grad student in my CS department circa 1995, it speaks only HTTP/0.9, and is written in a mixture of ksh and dd, requiring no other utilities. This runs on a SPARCstation 20 from the same era that has been repaired from scavenged parts so many times that the hostname spontaneously updated to "theseus" a few years ago. Fun fact: impurities in the copper I smelted to replace the power supply windings led (as you can no doubt imagine) to induction spikes on the drive rails, and the subsequent fsck erased all blog entries mentioning Jonathan Schwartz. So nothing of value was lost. Readers may be pleased to learn that despite all this I'm not totally retro; since SunOS 4.x is now out of support, the Kodiak is proudly booting NetBSD.
The blog itself is, of course, optimised for viewing in Lynx. In fact it only works in Lynx
- gingersnap 2y agohttps://xkcd.com/378/ https://xkcd.com/378/
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- rerdavies 2y agoReal programmers use octal not hex.
- inopinatus 2y agoWhat can I say, I modernised. It feels like an age since I last toggled in a bootloader through a front panel. I'm also anticipating a bit of snark (pun intended) from the folks still twiddling data on their magnetic drums using an iron needle. It's all in good humour though, we continue to get along because I didn't switch to SVR4.
- Corrado 2y agoI know you’re being facetious, but there was a time that I did toggle a boot loader in with switches on the front of a mini computer. Now I feel super old.
- inopinatus 2y agoYou’re not alone. I too am ancient enough to have done the same. PDP-8 at my hometown university computing centre. At least half my original comment held a grain of truth, as a matter of fact. Including the dd/sh HTTP server (hi Claudio!)
- awanderingmind 2y agoAnd only use computers they built themselves from transistors made from silicon they mined using hand-made, wooden tools... etc.
- bobowzki 2y agoThis is the comment I came here for.
- AlienRobot 2y agoI think you should just use Wordpress instead. It would be easier.
- ttepasse 2y agoToo hackerish. Real professional software developers only use the subset of HTML which ISO standardised in 2000 as ISO/IEC 15445:2000 with additional validating constraints. Published via SOAP ands WS-*.
- klysm 2y agoYou use a file system? I manually flip bits in my magnetic core memory
- ayaros 2y agoYou're doing God's work.