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Anyone running a old time hobby server? (Netscape 3.0?)

mraroid

Well-known member
Hi....

I believe I have my Mac set up correctly so that the Internet connection works.  For the time being, I am running Netscape 3.0.

No matter where I go, my screen fills with java and other errors and I can not see the web page. So this makes me think I have Ethernet conductivity  and I am on the Internet, but I am not 100% sure.

Is anyone here running a web page that old time web browsers can connect to?  Or maybe you know of some folks who are running a hobby server that is not so modern that older versions of Netscape and other browsers can pull up?

I would like to see at least one web page load in my browser.  Even if the content is just a photo or a block of text.

anyone?

jack

 

mraroid

Well-known member
Thanks!  Just as soon as my CC is assembled, I am going to give the links a try.

jack

 

Gryphel

Active member
The Gryphel Project web site, about preserving early Macintosh software, is intended to be viewable on a Macintosh Plus using the earliest web browsers. Feedback is welcome if there are problems.

 

Schmoburger

Well-known member
Also if you can access this from another newer machine to glean individual url's... http://www.404pagefound.com/

And this one...

http://mentalfloss.com/article/53792/17-ancient-abandoned-websites-still-work

I also had intentions to eventually build and host a very simplistic  page that is sleek, small and browsable with full functionality in Mosaic 1.0 or Macwebs on a 9" monochrome machine as a resource tailored to old hardware and ancient software... Similar to the abovementioned Gryphel site. :) I drafted a layout but havent gotten any further due to other commitments unfortunately, but it will be thing eventually, and I will be hosting a copy of the old info.apple download site (all 12Gb or so of it) on there, as well as some other handy ancient abandonware perhaps even on a seperate ftp server such that in theory you can get on your SE/30 and download whatever you need directly. But yes, that is a way off yet due to the meatlife being in my way.

 
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