Posts by Markus@oldbytes.space
 (DIR) Post #B5rNmS5iSiD6kg3ldA by Markus@oldbytes.space
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       #retrocomputing  #vintagecomputing #search #searchengine  #frogFind #mac #macOS #macintosh #netscape #navigator #cck Catch of the Day: The Corporate Time Capsule! 🏢💼Hey Retro Fans!Today, our Frog pond caught a guest whose browser ID looks like a secret message from 2001: Netscape Navigator 4.77C-CCK-MCD on a Mac!What on earth does that alphabet soup at the end mean? That is pure nostalgia for system administrators!CCK stands for the Client Customization Kit. This allowed companies, universities, or Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to brand the Netscape Navigator with their own corporate logos, fixed bookmarks, and homepages.MCD stands for Mission Control Desktop. This was a powerful Netscape tool that allowed admins to centrally control and lock down browser settings for thousands of employees across the corporate network.The fact that today, 25 years later, someone boots up their old Apple Macintosh (probably running Mac OS 8 or 9) and uses exactly this customized, strictly regulated corporate or provider version to visit FrogFind is an absolute dream. A living fossil of early enterprise IT!May your bookmarks always be centrally managed!Your FrogFind Team 🐸
       
 (DIR) Post #B5vZJkYehTTNi4W2fA by Markus@oldbytes.space
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       #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #search #searchengine #frogFind #novell #netware #icebrowser Catch of the Day: Surfing in the Server Room! 🦖💾Hey Retro Fans and IT Veterans!Sometimes our FrogFind radar catches exotics that make even hardcore system administrators rub their eyes in disbelief. Forget old handhelds or consoles—today we are diving deep into the flickering neon lights of the corporate server rooms of the early 2000s.Our bouncer logged this majestic user agent:Mozilla/5.0 (NetWare; U; NetWare 6.50.08; en-US) ICEbrowser/6.1.2 NovellViewPort/3.7.2For anyone who entered IT after 1995: We are talking about Novell NetWare 6.5! This was not a system for browsing or gaming. NetWare was the undisputed file and print server operating system that practically kept every corporate network running back in the day. An absolute workhorse.But how does a NetWare server end up on FrogFind? The answer lies in the ICEbrowser tag. To display help files or the "Novell Remote Manager" directly at the server rack on the graphical emergency console, Novell had embedded a tiny, Java-written browser from ICEsoft. It was never intended to explore the open World Wide Web!The fact that now, over 20 years later, someone is literally (or via remote connection) sitting in front of this server legend, opening the graphical console, hijacking the rudimentary Java help viewer, and using it to ping FrogFind is absolute top-tier retro computing. FrogFind delivers even to this pure server operating system the bare HTML it needs to read today's world.Cheers to the unknown admin keeping this server alive! May your disk arrays never fail.Your FrogFind Team 🐸
       
 (DIR) Post #B6EAQaASvHKef5bJya by Markus@oldbytes.space
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       #retrocomputing  #vintagecomputing  #search #searchengine  #frogfind #NetBSD #arcticfox #unix Catch of the Day: "Of course it runs NetBSD!" 🐡🦊Hey Retro Fans!Did you have a good weekend? Our bouncer at the FrogFind pond was certainly busy and waved a guest through yesterday that put a massive smile on our faces:ArcticFox 52.9 on NetBSD!Among hardcore Unix nerds, there is a famous catchphrase: "Of course it runs NetBSD!" This open-source operating system is legendary for its portability. It has been ported to run on almost anything with a processor—from old toasters and Sega Dreamcasts to massive server racks.The fact that someone navigated to our pond using NetBSD is already awesome. But the combination with the ArcticFox browser makes it a masterpiece. ArcticFox is a lovingly maintained community fork (based on Pale Moon) specifically kept alive to enable modern browsing on exotic architectures, PowerPC Macs, and old UNIX derivatives.Cheers to the tinkerers keeping exotic systems online!Your FrogFind Team 🐸
       
 (DIR) Post #B6EAQai8u4GqLXMDT6 by Markus@oldbytes.space
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       @ltning Hey there! 🐸First of all: Thank you so much for this amazing feedback! Hearing that someone is actively using FrogFind on an original IBM WebExplorer under OS/2 absolutely made my day. This is exactly the kind of retro-magic FrogFind was built for!You totally nailed the issue. Early browsers like the WebExplorer have a very strict/primitive MIME-type parser. When it sees text/html;charset=utf-8, it trips over the semicolon and the charset definition, doesn't recognize the string, and defaults to offering a file download instead of rendering the page.I will be applying a fix during the next hours. The server then checks the User-Agent. If it detects the WebExplorer, it completely strips the charset definition and serves a pure, naked Content-Type: text/html header.You should be able to ditch your proxy now and surf directly. Please give it a try and let me know if WebExplorer behaves nicely again!Thanks for the bug report and for keeping OS/2 Warp alive! 🚀
       
 (DIR) Post #B6KXcrhn0ZzEQFm13I by Markus@oldbytes.space
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       #retrocomputing  #vintagecomputing  #search #searchengine  #frogfind #sgi #sgiindy #indy #irix #netscape #navigator Catch of the Day: A visit from the SGI graphics forge! 🦖Hey Retro Fans!While many of us still had gray towers sitting under our desks in the late 90s, the world of high-end graphics looked completely different. And today, we had a visitor straight from that world:Netscape Navigator 4.75C-SGI on an SGI IRIX system!This is absolutely mind-blowing! SGI (Silicon Graphics, Inc.) built workstations that were as expensive as sports cars and as powerful as mainframes. Whether it was "Jurassic Park," "Terminator 2," or the architecture of the Nintendo 64—all of it was developed on SGI machines running the IRIX operating system.The fact that today, in 2026, someone fires up their SGI Indy, Indigo, or perhaps even a massive Octane workstation, launches the Netscape 4.75C customized exclusively for IRIX, and browses the web on FrogFind simply goes to show: True hardware legends never die.A reverent greeting to the lucky owner of this UNIX dream machine!Your FrogFind Team 🐸