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Using a 486dx to build a blog (2016)

by willemlaurentz on 1/22/2025, 12:47:54 PM with 2 comments
  • by willemlaurentz on 1/22/2025, 12:47:54 PM

    Never expected it to be a "40K views/month hobby"! Cheers to the 486!

  • by anthk on 1/22/2025, 1:05:22 PM

    A 486 can get a gopher client. Maybe NetsCape 4.04 has it:

    https://piteusz.ovh/files/windows/9x-nt/n32e404.exe

    More stuff:

    https://piteusz.ovh/files/windows/9x-nt/

    It's useful to reach stuff like gopher://hngopher.com (and read the comments from this site, among the URS's). Also, he can open gopher://magical.fish thru retrozilla, among http://portal.mozz.us with older Mozilla releases (or anything working on a 486), if can do far more things than a 75MHZ machine could do back in the day.

    He is using an SSH/Telnet client, but with http://portal.mozz.us opened on old browsers for the 346 he could browse his own blog on it, albeit with a reduced layout:

    Write gemini://gemi.dev at the input box from http://portal.mozz.us to head to that Gemini site.

    Head to News Waflle.

    Enter: https://willem.com/blog/2016-06-23_building-the-blog-in-styl...

    The full URL, with with https:// before the domain. That's mandatory. Enjoy.