Couldn't you cache the entire site? The speed of the floppy shouldn't matter that much.
A website hosted on a floppy disk (Be patient while it's loading)
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#12Error 503 unfortunately. I promise I was patient.
Once back in the early 2000s I connected the floppy drive incorrectly and the entire thing melted inside with some smoke. It was rather funny at the time, mostly because it wasn't my computer. That said, I'm hoping bigcat.space r&d headquarters are not on fire and the website will be back up soon :)
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#13I am curious about the reliability of this media - how many requests until the floppy is busted. Can the website owner comment on this?
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#14Reminds me of that blog/magazine who went fully solar and stopped thinking about uptime. What a time to be alive. https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/
Next: a website that loads from punched cards!
Where to stop?
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#15I published my first website in 1994 via floppy disk.
I didn't have the internet at home so would design the website there, save to floppy disk, then go to the local library that had internet terminals you could hire for an hour. From there I'd upload the website from floppy disk.
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#16https://web.archive.org/web/20220120092324/https://old.bigca... Not on a floppy disk but kills the curiosity
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#17Aaaaaand it's gone.
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#18Quoted post unavailable.
The fact it exists is creative and interesting. One could even argue it's a piece of performance art.
The fact the link doesn't work is, as you point out, inevitable. But that doesn't detract the artistic merit of the submission.
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#19I published my first website in 1994 via floppy disk. I didn't have the internet at home so would design the website there, save to floppy disk, then go to the local library that had internet terminals you could hire for an hour. From there I'd upload the website from floppy disk.
I did the same in 1996 (hosting at my univesity). On an Amiga. Which didn't even have a TCP/IP stack (I think you could get a commercial implementation).
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#20Pragmatic approach would be host it from floppy disk, but have some caching proxy before it. It could cache into RAM, most modern machines have enough memory to cache many many many floppies. Even Raspberry Pi.