[HN Gopher] ALTEXXANET - 90s Internet Experience (2016) ___________________________________________________________________ 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 | | But unfortunately this is out of date.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. | | [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. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2023-08-06 23:01 UTC)