- BirAdam 664 days agoHow do you prefer to mirror? Do you just use wget or something else?
- Lammy 664 days agoYep, just wget. Here's my wget-mirror shell function, newlines added for readability:
- The main page and the hosted sites are adorably retro in TYOOL 2024, but don't miss all the activity on the hosted wiki: https://wiki.oni2.net/Special:RecentChanges
- The link you submitted doesn't seem to work for me. I get an error.
- Still working for me — resolves to Hetzner. It might be slow because I'm mirroring the non-wiki portions and hitting a `pics_big.php` pretty hard lol
- If I click the link in the story (oni2.net not the wiki) it says:
Not Found The requested URL was not found on this server.
Apache/2.4.57 (Debian) Server at oni2.net Port 443
- Try it non-TLS. Seems like they have some sort of SNI/VHost misconfiguration with https://7dtd.illy.bz on the same host even though I do get served a `CN=oni2.net` cert here.
- I feel like these sort of articles really undersell the strategic importance of 98sᴇ and 𝓂ℯ as vehicles for distribution of IE 5.0 and IE 5.5 (respectively). More so for OEMs than for retail users IMO. Win𝓂ℯ makes the corporate strategy even more obvious with a few UI elements re-written as HTAs, like the Help & Support Center.
I had a computer with Win98ғᴇ, and getting IE 5.0/5.5 was difficult over 56k dialup when 20-something megabytes was huge and took hours. In fact IE5 was the first time I ever saw an installer exe that was just a downloader (“Active Setup”) to make the download size variable depending on selected components. I 'member exporting the downloaded files and burning a big CD with all of my favorite installers so I wouldn't have to download them all again the next time I did a clean install, which was a thing I did fairly often as a kid.
Compare some historic browser stats:
— March 1999, right at the time of IE 5.0's public release as a download or CD-ROM: https://web.archive.org/web/20070211145820/http://www.websid... (IE4 56.83%, IE5 2.18%)
— April 1999, still one month before the release of Win98sᴇ: https://web.archive.org/web/20070211145751/http://www.websid... (IE4 51.35%, IE5 8.96%)
— August 1999 with three months of Win98sᴇ bringing IE5 to every new PC by default: https://web.archive.org/web/20070211145548/http://www.websid... (IE4 44.73%, IE5 24.86%)
https://www.tech-insider.org/statistics/research/2000/0124.h... sez “Worldwide PC shipments surpassed 113.5 million units in 1999, an increase of 21.7 percent over 1998 shipments.”
- I really love the Ⅱɢs's A9M0330 keyboard, much more than the later Macintosh-bundled ones: https://deskthority.net/wiki/Apple_Desktop_Bus_Keyboard
- > Quark said it would consider divesting Adobe's K-2 and PageMaker products to alleviate antitrust concerns.
Note: K-2 was the code name for InDesign, which was not yet released in 1998.
- Ctrl+F “Titor”: Phrase not found — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Titor#Titor's_posts
- > The dialogue has been remixed several times and has even been sung about by Nirvana.
What? That was Evolution Control Committee lol https://evolution-control.com/images/ecc/mp3/allyourbase/The...
- https://www.spriters-resource.com/sega_cd/lunareternalblue/
https://www.spriters-resource.com/playstation/lunar2ebc/
Have an enjoy (click through the square navigation elements to the full-size sheets)
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e: Mirror done, but when I try to share it Archive-dot-org says it thinks my upload is spam. Soliciting suggestions for public BitTorrent trackers :)