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Surely a website that doesn’t exist but is left to the imagination of the reader Is the final stop
I have one like that. It contains pictures of cats.
I'm pretty sure that website exists.
A website hosted on a floppy disk (Be patient while it's loading)
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#62Unsurprisingly I got a 503 error. I'll be more curious how many requests it can handle if it is really only on floppy (no caching etc..). 1.44 MB is plenty of space to host a nice website !
Are you asking about how many requests per second - or about how many request per floppy (before that needs replacing)? ;)
Yeh, if it is down, it's sad that the HN effect has caused the death of a floppy or floppy drive :( haha
Re: A website hosted on a floppy disk (Be patient while it's loading)
#63A gif just loaded[0]! That means that the computer is alive, and the floppy still somewhat works. No luck in trying the homepage.
[0] https://old.bigcat.space/278062.gif - here it is for the curious: https://imgur.com/a/AfcEnRw
edit: the website just loaded, but not the images. It's still alive.
Re: A website hosted on a floppy disk (Be patient while it's loading)
#64error 503.F0064 : floppy disk ejected
Re: A website hosted on a floppy disk (Be patient while it's loading)
#65Pragmatic 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.
It's hosted on a machine with 4M of ram on windows 3.11, and specifically uses a web server which doesn't use caching (And I don't think Dos 6 caches files at the OS level, at least by default)
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#66> Best viewed in uwutscape navigator at 640x480 or something
This is not true. It shows horizontal scroll at this resolution. Absolutely unusable in my 15" CRT.
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Next: a website that loads from punched cards! Where to stop?
Surely a website that doesn’t exist but is left to the imagination of the reader Is the final stop
Re: A website hosted on a floppy disk (Be patient while it's loading)
#68Reminds me of that blog/magazine who went fully solar and stopped thinking about uptime. What a time to be alive. https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/
Which reminds me of a catastrophe movie, where all countries launched all their nukes, and earth became radioactively poisoned. A submarine survived, looking for signs of life, and they received sporadic messages like "the whales are fine" (which made sense to them since whales live under-water). They went to the origin of the signal, only to find a computer turning on and off because of its solar panel, sending mess…
This would be an interesting watch, I tried searching but couldn't find it, can you share the name of the movie?
Re: A website hosted on a floppy disk (Be patient while it's loading)
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Lead with the positive curiosity of wanting to know how the author did this rather than your negativity of “what’s the point?” The author could very well post a follow-up article detailing how
What is there to talk about really? Hook up a USB floppy drive to an IIS machine, select the floppy as the source for the site and voila. Takes 1 minute to set up if you have a USB floppy drive hanging around.
The site loaded for me. So I can tell you; it does not use IIS. And it's running on a 386 so I doubt there's any USB involved. What he pulled off is a lot more interesting than what you're describing.
It was a fun thing he did to see if he could and when, to his apparent delight, it worked he decided to share his results. As someone who grew up in the era of floppy disks and constant worry about disk space and performance I found the whole thing very entertaining.
Sometimes we need to take a break from all the serious and just have a little fun. Items like this guy's post are why I come to HN.
Re: A website hosted on a floppy disk (Be patient while it's loading)
#70Unsurprisingly I got a 503 error. I'll be more curious how many requests it can handle if it is really only on floppy (no caching etc..). 1.44 MB is plenty of space to host a nice website !
Are you asking about how many requests per second - or about how many request per floppy (before that needs replacing)? ;)
Yes sorry, I meant I'll be curious to know how many requests per second that floppy can handle. Well for sure it's not enough for instance since I still get 503 :). Since I am curious so I'll just bookmark for next time.