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Have se/30 on internet—now what?

mloret

mloret

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Hello! With a bluescsi v2 I was able to connect my se/39 to the internet. I launched a browser and found that it was painfully slow, so surfing the web is probs my not going to be great with this uncelebrated machine. I was wondering if someone might suggest some BBS option for me or some other fun ways to use the internet with my SE/30? Thank you!
 
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cheesestraws

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I've never really understood why people are so keen to get those machines on the Internet - there's really very little to do once you're on it other than go "well, this is bad at being on the Internet, ok".
 
mloret

mloret

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You may have a point but dammit I wanna find a use! If for nothing else than to say “well, I connected to a bbs and it was lousy.”
 
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Realitystorm

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I think it's more of a personal challenge of "can I make this work" and/or nostalgia. I know when I played around with ARA + serial + Basilisk II as an internet gateway it was the first category. Looking at websites rendered in Mosaic for me, falls into the second.
 
Nixontheknight

Nixontheknight

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mloret said:
Hello! With a bluescsi v2 I was able to connect my se/39 to the internet. I launched a browser and found that it was painfully slow, so surfing the web is probs my not going to be great with this uncelebrated machine. I was wondering if someone might suggest some BBS option for me or some other fun ways to use the internet with my SE/30? Thank you!
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bbs.fozztexx.net on port 23 and cqbbs.ddns.net on port 6800, use Black Night for the best experience. Also, use MR Browser to get stuff on the SE/30
 
slipperygrey

slipperygrey

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Coming back to the web for a moment, you could set up a web proxy on another machine that transcodes modern web sites to primitive html. A 68030 machine should be pretty capable at rendering text centric pages from hackernews or arstechnica in MacWeb or Netscape 2, say.

Shameless plug: try my fork of macproxy: https://github.com/rdmark/macproxy
 
slomacuser

slomacuser

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Bookmark this pages:
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Apps for Internet:
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  • LegacyAI
  • IRC
  • BBS


Bookmark on Mac OS 9 machine:
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There is probably more :) but it is a good start
 
Nixontheknight

Nixontheknight

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slomacuser said:
Bookmark this pages:
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Apps for Internet:
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  • LegacyAI
  • IRC
  • BBS


Bookmark on Mac OS 9 machine:
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There is probably more :) but it is a good start
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and mac84.net, he has a link to a lot of different sites for old macs on his retro site
 
ironborn65

ironborn65

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slipperygrey said:
Coming back to the web for a moment, you could set up a web proxy on another machine that transcodes modern web sites to primitive html. A 68030 machine should be pretty capable at rendering text centric pages from hackernews or arstechnica in MacWeb or Netscape 2, say.

Shameless plug: try my fork of macproxy: https://github.com/rdmark/macproxy
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or https://github.com/tenox7/wrp
it's the one I have installed in my lan
it sends a clickable image of any web site
 
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ironborn65

ironborn65

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cheesestraws said:
I've never really understood why people are so keen to get those machines on the Internet - there's really very little to do once you're on it other than go "well, this is bad at being on the Internet, ok".
Click to expand...
It recalls my friends of mine are asking "Why bother fixing PCs that now are useless'?"
I reply "Because I like it" :D
 
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