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Re: Netscape ISP Homepage

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Post by outime »

pmlnr wrote: post #68
user3939382 wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would make a deal with a friend or neighbor who gets 5G reception on top of the hill. Connect a 5G modem to a Ubiquiti point-to-point antenna set that beams the connection to the house at the bottom (they have different products depending on the distance). That may violate the TOS of the original connection but probably wouldn’t come up.

> That may violate the TOS of the original connection but probably wouldn’t come up. How? If that were true, WiFi range extenders would violate TOS as well.

WiFi range extenders usually implies same home and same family members and not the house down the hill so neighbors don’t need to pay their own. It’s a bit absurd though since that house wouldn’t be able to pay their own in this case.

Re: Netscape ISP Homepage

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Post by [deleted] »

xiii1408 wrote: post #32

My grandmom legit still uses Netscape dial-up as her ISP. She lives in a very rural county in Tennessee, and there are no DSL, cable, or fiber options. Her house is unfortunately also down in a valley, so there's no cell phone reception, although there's reasonable 5G service if you walk up to the top of a nearby hill. Perhaps Skylink will be an option soon, although not yet. My parents bought her a Kindle a while ba…

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Re: Netscape ISP Homepage

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Post by bayindirh »

pmlnr wrote: post #68
user3939382 wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would make a deal with a friend or neighbor who gets 5G reception on top of the hill. Connect a 5G modem to a Ubiquiti point-to-point antenna set that beams the connection to the house at the bottom (they have different products depending on the distance). That may violate the TOS of the original connection but probably wouldn’t come up.

> That may violate the TOS of the original connection but probably wouldn’t come up. How? If that were true, WiFi range extenders would violate TOS as well.

> How? If that were true, WiFi range extenders would violate TOS as well.

A WiFi extender just repeats the same network with same security, SSID and access password. It doesn't extend connection to third parties.

Similarly, if I have a large property with a large land, I can spread the network to every part of the land with the equipment of my choosing and no one would say anything unless I allow third parties unfettered permanent access to said network.

Re: Netscape ISP Homepage

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Post by zorked »

akoster wrote: post #67
AceJohnny2 wrote: post #2

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netscape#Netscape_Internet_Ser... > Netscape ISP is a dial-up Internet service once offered at US$9.95 per month. The company serves web pages in a compressed format to increase effective speeds up to 1300 kbit/s (average 500 kbit/s). The Internet service provider is now run by Verizon under the Netscape brand. The low-cost ISP was officially launched on January 8, 2004. Its main competi…

Reminds me of Opera Mini [1] utilizing Opera’s compression servers (which really helped with capped mobile data plans a few years back) or Google Web Light [2] which I have heard might be similar [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opera_Mini [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Web_Light

I used to be involved with an ISP-specific product which was basically a plain-old HTTP proxy that would ensure everything is compressed with gzip at max settings and which downscaled images.

For dial up, it worked well. For everything else the added latency that came with re-enconding reduced subjective connection speed considerably unless you were lucky to hit the server's cache.

Re: Netscape ISP Homepage

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Post by gerjomarty »

I was wondering what everyone was talking about when a huge AOL cookie consent page came up for me first, requiring me to reject consent from a bunch of tracking cookies.

If this site doesn't actually track anything (and I stress I haven't checked), I guess they've just put the consent modal on everything they own just to be safe?

I guess this is because I'm based in Europe, given the majority of comments here.

Re: Netscape ISP Homepage

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Post by caslon »

mrweasel wrote: post #61
kivlad wrote: post #18

https://www.compuserve.com is the same thing. Oath/Verizon is keeping these sites on some kind of life support to this day.

They actually took the time to make it at "template" of sorts. I wonder if the sites are deliberately made using an older design language to appeal to a certain audience? You almost want to clone it and just replace the content with something more interesting.

Actually, the Netscape page is just a thin veneer over the CompuServe page. If you take the green gifs off, the page is filled with CompuServe colors. It's less a template and more Netscape wearing the skin of CompuServe turned green.

Re: Netscape ISP Homepage

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Post by bergheim »

spiritplumber wrote: post #74

This is what the front page of a portal should look like. It looks good, loads instantly, doesn't ask you inane questions about cookies or bombard you with ads... Perfect.

I actually had the tracking popup, I clicked "options", had to unselect a million things, scroll all the way down, and finally they let me decline tracking. So not quite like the old days..

Re: Netscape ISP Homepage

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Post by wasmitnetzen »

kiwijamo wrote: post #65
Tijdreiziger wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> That loaded fast. After getting through the order-of-magnitude slower cookie consent page, yes.

What cookie consent page?

Probably an EU-specific page. I got it too, it was even in my local language.
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