[HN Gopher] ALTEXXANET - 90s Internet Experience (2016)
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       ALTEXXANET - 90s Internet Experience (2016)
        
       Author : ecliptik
       Score  : 41 points
       Date   : 2023-08-06 18:18 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (altexxanet.org)
 (TXT) w3m dump (altexxanet.org)
        
       | hypercube33 wrote:
       | There is also ProtoNet and it's browser that tries to make 1996
       | internet sites functional again including weather fed through
       | from some modern API to websites of the era. I think they even
       | have RuneScape running inside it.
        
       | teraflop wrote:
       | The "FTP Server" page says:
       | 
       | > Since FTP is still widely used, generally any web browser
       | supported today will allow you to connect.
       | 
       | But unfortunately this is out of date. The page was last updated
       | in 2016, but both Chrome and Firefox dropped support for FTP in
       | 2021.
        
       | tannhaeuser wrote:
       | Looks great, but before it's too late I want to point out this is
       | how the web looked like until about 1996 or 1998 at the latest
       | maybe. After that, and even before CSS was fully available in
       | browsers [1], image tiling was everywhere ie misusing the table
       | element with image backgrounds. Tools such as DreamWeaver had
       | this built in and it was a major selling point I believe.
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       | [1]: https://www.w3.org/Style/CSS20/history.html
        
       | hoerzu wrote:
       | its loading too fast
        
         | hdaz0017 wrote:
         | 403 Forbidden nginx
         | 
         | ;)
        
       | mysterydip wrote:
       | I remember that little animated walking floppy guy on the
       | downloads page! It used to be everywhere
        
       | efnx wrote:
       | I remember using the services like the ones listed here,
       | specifically hotline. I actually got started with a clone called
       | Carracho, and eventually moved to Haxial KDX. I met a lot of cool
       | folks on KDX and learned about "hacking" which morphed into a
       | full fledged career in software engineering.
        
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