[HN Gopher] FrogFind: Search Engine for Vintage Computers ___________________________________________________________________ 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: | | https://ohmeadhbh.github.io/bobcat/ ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-04-26 23:01 UTC)