Post AOVaHuZogmTCmkMeZs by djsumdog@djsumdog.com
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(DIR) Post #AOVPIJL7WQ9k5fTi9Q by stux@mstdn.social
2022-10-12T22:52:29Z
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Back in the day internet on your phone
(DIR) Post #AOVPx2pZo1pSlK9BgG by ifixcoinops@mastodon.social
2022-10-12T22:59:43Z
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@stux There was a place in Crewe that specialized in phones you could go on the internet with like this. It was called "The WAP Shop"
(DIR) Post #AOVXgIhULitkgutIPY by djsumdog@djsumdog.com
2022-10-13T00:26:38.363425Z
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These were all WAP (Wireless Application Protocol) pages. If I recall correctly, they were made in XML and you had a _stack_ with individual _cards_. The information is served from a standard web server, but the ISP would _compile_ the cards into a binary format before shipping it to the phone.I had an old WAP project for displaying my mobile resume; not sure if I still have it somewhere. I'm pretty sure all the infrastructure to make this stuff work on those old brick phones is gone now.
(DIR) Post #AOVY1pqAKa4ZYQDZmS by PhenomX6@fedi.pawlicker.com
2022-10-13T00:30:31.919792Z
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@djsumdog @stux I remember later (mid 2000s) flip/bar phones had web browsers and the m. and wap. websites would be "cut down" versions using the most basic HTML, and if you had old ass browsers like IE4/5 you'd get sent to them too.I think what killed much of this was the death of non-SSL HTTP thanks to the Snowden leaks and Google pushing for it.
(DIR) Post #AOVYTGeckIXqXCtsRs by byteborg@chaos.social
2022-10-13T00:35:18Z
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@stux"The Wappening"... Feels so 80s, seen from now
(DIR) Post #AOVYYmZ7WnLwxAxJLs by PhenomX6@fedi.pawlicker.com
2022-10-13T00:36:29.360087Z
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@djsumdog @stux Oh yeah, there was also a good reason to serving you mobile sites towards the dying days of IE6.IE6 still continued in use as the web browser for Windows Mobile 6.5 in 2008-9 or so if you didn't download Opera Mobile/Mini. No really. There were phones like the HTC HD2 and all still shipping with goddamn IE6 in 2009. For a phone browser IE6 was fairly advanced, but Android and iOS were starting to have devices people wanted. Literally a few months before the HD2 came out, the infamous HTC Dream came out and a year after the HD2, the original Galaxy S would come out. So if you were using IE6 at that point you were either using a shitty PC, or a phone.
(DIR) Post #AOVZnXLAW4uK221rou by djsumdog@djsumdog.com
2022-10-13T00:50:18.986895Z
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I had Opera running on Java ME on my Palm Treo. But yea, the dominant browser we supported at work was still IE6. I never had one of the WindowsCE phones back then .. went from the Treo to the Palm Pre (no idea what web browser that was, but I think it was khtml/webkit based) and then to an HTC Evo 4G (first Android .. eventually even got CyanogenMod on it)
(DIR) Post #AOVZqKMDFBXIdMqdxw by PhenomX6@fedi.pawlicker.com
2022-10-13T00:50:52.299023Z
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@djsumdog @stux My friend actually used a later WP8/10 device because for some reason it was the only device that worked for his job's jank exchange setup.
(DIR) Post #AOVZxebqLTnXTJeXMO by djsumdog@djsumdog.com
2022-10-13T00:52:10.900672Z
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I had one of the Nokia windows devices for a hot minute .. I actually liked the OS .. wish Microsoft had put more into it. I hate the lack of choice in the mobile space today.
(DIR) Post #AOVa10lcQ7Cv3rpHTU by PhenomX6@fedi.pawlicker.com
2022-10-13T00:52:48.068990Z
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@djsumdog @stux The only other Phone OS is now KaiOS...and good lord. It's slow on the hardware it's meant to run on (cheap shitty phones).
(DIR) Post #AOVaHuZogmTCmkMeZs by djsumdog@djsumdog.com
2022-10-13T00:55:50.438215Z
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There's Sailfish and KDE Plasma, but I haven't really tried either. I had Plasma on a PostmarketOS install on an old tablet, but it had some issues and then the table stopped turning on. I don't remember the last thing I tried on my PinePhone, but I haven't gotten that think out of its box in yonks.
(DIR) Post #AOVwjpyVacZpc4dQrw by beschissen@mstdn.social
2022-10-13T05:07:12Z
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@stux The old Nokia phones had that look where you knew what they were without opening the pic all the way.
(DIR) Post #AOXWIJcRZSvix6RyMK by rysiek@mastodon.technology
2022-10-13T23:20:10Z
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@stux oh man this takes me back
(DIR) Post #AOXX9deBpyh6Psh34K by carbontwelve@notacult.social
2022-10-13T23:29:39Z
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@stux wow, now that takes me back. I remembered playing some wap door games some of which were multiplayer. Good times.
(DIR) Post #AOXztcgkX0o5TqbdRY by kunt@mastodon.online
2022-10-14T04:51:50Z
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@stux this reminds me how 2662555 people were with spellings.