[HN Gopher] FrogFind: Search Engine for Vintage Computers
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FrogFind: Search Engine for Vintage Computers
Author : tambourine_man
Score : 40 points
Date : 2022-04-25 11:03 UTC (1 days ago)
(HTM) web link (frogfind.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (frogfind.com)
| LeoPanthera wrote:
| If you set your HTTP proxy to theoldnet.com (and add an exception
| for web.archive.org), and then set the port number to a year (try
| 1997, for example), you will get web pages served from the
| Wayback Machine, from that year.
|
| It's like sending your entire browser back in time.
| EricE wrote:
| This is cool! It's amazing how heavy most web pages are - all
| while producing very little additional value to the web site
| visitor for that added complexity.
| the_only_law wrote:
| Sadly searching HP stuff still returns whatever modern tech
| they've reused old product names on.
| rzzzt wrote:
| The companion site is http://68k.news/ which renders news
| articles using a similar pipeline.
| mmphosis wrote:
| How do I easily add this to the list of search engines in
| Firefox? I seem trip over this issue every time I see one of
| these new search engines, and I definitely want to add it to the
| list of search engines. Maybe my distro broke this, again.
| 6510 wrote:
| right click in a search box then Add a keyword for this search.
| Press tab 3 times and type "frog" or "f" or whatever you like.
| Use the address bar to FrogFind things by typing "frog hacker
| news"
| mmphosis wrote:
| It doesn't work. ugh, I think my distro tore that feature out
| of Firefox with the latest update.
|
| I may only search eBay, Bing, Amazon, and other search
| engines that my distro deems worthy.
| mmphosis wrote:
| That was painful.
|
| https://mycroftproject.com/search-
| engines.html?name=frogfind...
|
| _Hi, my understanding is that with very few exceptions, if
| a search engine is included in Firefox it is because
| Mozilla and the search engine have a contract and Mozilla
| makes some money from the arrangement. It 's hard for
| outsiders to know what will be added or removed in the
| future._
|
| https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/bring-back-
| recent...
| 6510 wrote:
| https://addons.mozilla.org/en-
| US/firefox/extensions/category...
|
| is what firefox points me to if I click on find more
| search engines from the settings
| drewzero1 wrote:
| I started using one called Context Search[0] which let me
| set custom URLs to be searched on right-click. I needed
| something to search selected text on an intranet php
| search page, seems to work okay so far.
|
| [0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-
| US/firefox/addon/contextual-se...
| 6510 wrote:
| I just read up a bit. What a weird development. I
| normally resort to user scripts and bookmarklets to
| transport the search query between pages. Didn't know
| things got this bad.
|
| Clicking on an open search js link[0] also doesn't seem
| to work anymore.
|
| I've added auto discovery[1] here which seems to work.
| FrogFind should add this bloat to their pages :)
|
| [0] - javascript:window.external.AddSearchProvider('http:
| //blog.go-here.nl/yacy-opensearch.xml');
|
| [1] - http://blog.go-here.nl/8603
| wolverine876 wrote:
| Add-ons let you add other search engines. I suspect you
| could do it yourself pretty easily, maybe even as a custom
| pref.
| drewzero1 wrote:
| I was just namedropping this project in another thread today.
| Cool to see it on the front page too!
| jstanley wrote:
| It's cool that it loads every page through a proxy that strips
| out most of the extraneous nonsense. I was expecting the search
| results page to be "vintage" appropriate, but then every
| subsequent page to just be normal.
|
| That said, I don't know that I'd call any computer running a web
| browser "vintage".
| NegativeLatency wrote:
| Contiki on an Apple II is not vintage for you?
| reaperducer wrote:
| TRS-80 Model 100 - Telnet to a MacBook - Lynx to the web.
|
| Surfing the web at 600 baud. That's how we roll all up in here.
| drewzero1 wrote:
| I tried to do the same with my TRS-80 CoCo, but couldn't log
| in because the CoCo can't do lowercase letters. One of these
| days I should make an all-caps user with a couple of command
| aliases and try again. The same setup works well with my WYSE
| dumb terminal and Macintosh Classic, though the Classic
| should be able to handle some graphical browsing as well.
| retrocryptid wrote:
| lol. i was doing the same thing except it was a linux
| middlebox.
|
| and if you've found any pages that render decently in lynx,
| you can add them to bobcat:
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| https://ohmeadhbh.github.io/bobcat/
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