- I felt this one hard. I've been down many retrocomputing rat holes.
- I've changed it to http:// for clarity.
- For those that have never heard of SCAMP: https://www.si.edu/object/nmah_334628
- Your wish is my command! It's done.
- Everything is open to abuse or spam. That's just the Internet. This is a super useful feature for users so it's definitely here to stay.
Yes, I am aware of the scale of abuse. I fought it back when I was doing anti-spam and I see it every day at Cloudflare. The site has a bunch of moderation and anti-spam tools already built in and I plan to use them!
- Welcome, mwenge! Thanks for signing up.
- That's probably because I submitted a lot of 6502 stuff early on. I imagine as the site grows that'll change.
- Yes. I’m mostly done restoring an IBM ThinkPad 701cs and the absolute worst part is the rubberized paint.
- Apparently you have to be logged in to read this. Is there any way to use a public link?
- Cool, thanks!
- Nice. Get this hosts file too, to block most AD pests which would halt an older system:
https://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts2.htm
On Gopher, you have gopher://magical.fish and gopher://mozz.us as 'modern' starting points to cool services, such as a news directory, weather, a language translator and so on.
If you need a ZIP file (and more) uncompresser for w9x:
- Thanks!
- Well, I see that laptop has a 486, so Retrozilla might be too heavy. Still, older versions of Lynx will work with these Gopher sites:
https://www.vordweb.co.uk/standards/download_lynx.htm
No modern HTTPS support, but well, with http://68k.news and the Gopher hole portals you'll have interesting sites to grasp from anywhere. Add gopher://gophernews.net and that's it.
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This article is an example of that.