This was a nice ie feature 20 years ago.
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/196646/how-to-make-...
Show HN: Self-hosted offline Internet from your browsing history
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#32Very interesting indeed. I remember having to paste a script in the console in order to be able to view my cached files.
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#33Isn't this how the internet was supposed to work in the first place? I remember Netscape navigator having a 'go offline' icon in the corner.
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#34Awesome! I always wanted this and at one point tried to achieve it with WWWOFFLE, but the welcome proliferation of https thwarted that attempt. Gonna check it. Unfortunately only for chrome. I am very much used to having my favourite set of Firefox plugins. Will have to check whether I can replicate that with Chrome.
I've used
http://www.gedanken.org.uk/software/wwwoffle/
a long time ago (when on modem).
What I'd like is to cache the history for each page too (important for news pages).
Re: Show HN: Self-hosted offline Internet from your browsing history
#35Isn't this how the internet was supposed to work in the first place? I remember Netscape navigator having a 'go offline' icon in the corner.
I remember that button, too, but I think it had more to do with connection charges than caching.
In Netscape days, many people would have to pay by the minute to be connected to the internet. In those days, web pages generally contained far more information than they do now, and were less interactive. So you'd connect, load the content you wanted to see, disconnect, and then just sit there and read it for free, instead of bleeding cash.
Re: Show HN: Self-hosted offline Internet from your browsing history
#36Isn't this how the internet was supposed to work in the first place? I remember Netscape navigator having a 'go offline' icon in the corner.
I remember that button, too, but I think it had more to do with connection charges than caching. In Netscape days, many people would have to pay by the minute to be connected to the internet. In those days, web pages generally contained far more information than they do now, and were less interactive. So you'd connect, load the content you wanted to see, disconnect, and then just sit there and read it for free, inste…
Or even dialup. Expecting a phone call? Go offline.
Re: Show HN: Self-hosted offline Internet from your browsing history
#37Reminds me days of Webaroo[1] and Google grears[2] [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webaroo [2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gears_(software)
Ah, that brings back memories. Didn't Palm OS have something similar? I think it was Plucker [1], but I'm not too sure. [1]
Yep. With Plucker, I could download the New York Times web site (I think via RSS) before I went to work, sync it to my Palm Pilot, and then read it on my lunch.
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#38Cool concept. In a world that's getting increasingly connected what are the main use-cases? I ask because the dev tool that our company creates occasionally (okay, very rarely) gets a question about offline mode, and when I prod, it's usually just out of curiosity, not because they actually need it in real life.
In a world that's getting increasingly connected what are the main use-cases?
Increasingly ≠ totally.
Even though I'm a developer, pre-pandemic I would have to spend a day or three offline several times a year while working. This would be useful for that.
I know an IT guy who works in mines. He loves anything that works offline.
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#39Very interesting project. I wish this was actually (optional) built-in behavior for browsers when bookmarking pages, or at least when adding to a "read later" list like Pocket/Instapaper etc. Pocket seems to offer something like this, but only in the premium version, so the "permanent archive" ironically seems to go away when unsubscribing. As a workaround, what if bookmarking a (public) page could actually ping it t…
I implemented some options for that purpose in SingleFile [1]. They allow you to save the page when you bookmark it and eventually replace the URL of the page with the file URI on your disk. [1] https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile
Cool, I was so into maff back in the days. I'll give it a try.
(I even wrote this before checking out your link: Have you heard of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Archive_Format from two or three Internets ago ? If so what's your thoughts on it ?)
Re: Show HN: Self-hosted offline Internet from your browsing history
#40Very interesting project. I wish this was actually (optional) built-in behavior for browsers when bookmarking pages, or at least when adding to a "read later" list like Pocket/Instapaper etc. Pocket seems to offer something like this, but only in the premium version, so the "permanent archive" ironically seems to go away when unsubscribing. As a workaround, what if bookmarking a (public) page could actually ping it t…
Pinboard.in (not affiliated, just a happy customer) offers an archiving service for saved bookmarks.