Slashdot Mirror
Classic Browsers Given New Life
randomErr writes: "Recently a new site opened up that shows these youngsters how we had to surf in the old days. Deja Vu.org pulls a given URL and filters out the tags according to what was viewable by your chosen browser. Just for kicks take a look at how Slashdot.org looks on Netscape 0.9 and IE 2.0" Very fun -- the timeline is interesting reading, too. It's like a trip down Memory Lane. Or something.
Can't beat reading slashdot in black on a black background. Shame the links aren't in black.
Don't know if it's because the server is being slashdotted or what, but what I get for both Mosaic and IE 2 is a 500 error ... which means that some things haven't changed *too* much =)
"Oh, I hope he doesn't give us halyatchkies," said Heinrich.
Server Error
This server has encountered an internal error which prevents it from fulfilling your request. The most likely cause is a misconfiguration. Please ask the administrator to look for messages in the server's error log.
This is a lot like Slashdot looks NOW.
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The other way of doing this of course, is simply to download and install the appropriate browser from the evolt.org browser archive at http://browsers.evolt.org/.
"Give the anarchist a cigarette"
A little planning goes a long way...
I still have Netscape 0.96 installed on my machine. I use it for testing purposes. I figure that if my pages display OK on that, they will display on anything. Also, it's good to see that your NOFRAMES and NOSCRIPT tags are actually doing what they are supposed to be doing.
I tried /. with it just now. It displayed for a minute, then the browser GPF'd. You can't get much more authentic than that!
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
As someone who was lucky enough to try the original browser, probably within days of its release, I find this annoying. :-)
Check out this web page http://www.w3.org/People/Ber ners-Lee/WorldWideWeb.htmlc .gif.
or this nice screenshot: http://www.w3. org/History/1994/WWW/Journals/CACM/screensnap2_24
Note that this wasn't just a browser -- it was a "Browser - Editor!" Very advanced for its time, eh?
(sorry...its just always ticked me off that credit isn't given where it's due on this one...)
david.
Y'know, DJ Delorie (http://www.delorie.com) has a bunch of stuff like this thing.
Here's the Lynx viewer.
The Purifier
and the Compatibility Viewer.
There is a mirror on http://finnegan.metamatrix.se/dejavu/emulator.htm that seems ok for now ;)
IE 2.0 still comes with Windows NT doesn't it? At least that's what the PDC here @ work is running.. :)
BilldaCat
What a great idea! This could be a whole genre in itself, like classic gaming! Think of the possibilities:
Software that slows your computer down so you can see what it would have been like to run Unreal on a 286;
Mailing lists with aficionados of poor reception advising each other of the exact settings to use to make cable reception on popular models of television look like the signal is coming into a bent coathanger jammed into the back of the TV;
Petitioning supermarkets and other grocery stores to be open only from 9-5, like in the old days.
The possibilities are limitless!
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Give me liberty or give me something of equal or lesser value from your glossy 32-page catalog.
I don't get it. I'm still using Netscape 1.2N
(It has nntp and everything - except the buggy features such as javascript!)
Grizally Guru mode on:
Web browsers? Pah! Back in my day, we had to use Gopher! Gopher i say! And if we found a file that was more than 100k in size we used to weep like little girls! Our email would takes days to arrive. Sometimes it wouldn't arrive at all! And that's how we liked it!
Syllable : It's an Operating System
Ok, i'm moving it to a new server now. The thing
is that we (dejavu.org) got sponsored with a
very nice (8 years old or so) hardware from digital. Very nice, but doesn't handle load
very well. I'm moving over the site to a (somewhat
faster) linuxbox that should be able to handle
the slashdotters somewhat better. For those
of you who doesn't want to await the dns synching
the address is http://finnegan.metamatrix.se/dejavu/