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Re: A website hosted on a floppy disk (Be patient while it's loading)

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Post by charcircuit »

smhenderson wrote: post #45
charcircuit wrote: post #11

Couldn't you cache the entire site? The speed of the floppy shouldn't matter that much.

I think that would defeat the point - one of the items on his site "feature" list says : Xitami web server, because it's the only one that does no caching at all, so the website is always served fresh from the floppy. So I think it's more about proving what you can do with old software/hardware when you put your mind to it...

If you wanted to prove that, wouldn't you want to make it scale to handle HN traffic. I'm sure it would be possible.

Re: A website hosted on a floppy disk (Be patient while it's loading)

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Post by smhenderson »

hnlmorg wrote: post #18
dncornholio wrote: post #5

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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.

But that doesn't detract the artistic merit of the submission.

Agreed, looked at in that light I'd suggest that it actually adds to the artistic expression. I was one of a few, apparently, that the site loaded for (sans images) and it was a tiny thrill to see it load. So, it felt like watching a performance of sorts, for me at least.

Re: A website hosted on a floppy disk (Be patient while it's loading)

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Post by fogihujy »

gelli wrote: post #72
whoibrar wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This would be an interesting watch, I tried searching but couldn't find it, can you share the name of the movie?

I think it's On the Beach, a remake of a 1950s movie https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0219224/ Here's the original: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053137/

Brilliant book too! Well worth a read.

Re: A website hosted on a floppy disk (Be patient while it's loading)

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Post by CTOSian »

phh wrote: post #56
omgmajk wrote: post #10

Reminds 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…

oh crap... now I had some sort of flashback from Fallout 4 (Yangtze) :)

Thanks guys for sharing the link of the movie.

Re: A website hosted on a floppy disk (Be patient while it's loading)

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Post by jhoechtl »

madaxe_again wrote: post #49
hdjjhhvvhga wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Unfortunately it is not fully solar - it is as far as it can go, but then it is connected to a home router connected to mains etc.

I do have a fully solar powered VPN gateway/LTE router/web server/Wi-Fi relay - in my case, it’s out of necessity, as I live in a deep valley, and the only way I could get internet access here was to stick a mast on top of a hill with an IP67 box of goodies and a solar panel and battery, and an LPDA and yagi antenna for LTE and 802.11n respectively. The web server isn’t public, but fulfils a few important functions f…

Cool. Do you have a writeup of what you made and how?

Re: A website hosted on a floppy disk (Be patient while it's loading)

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Post by corobo »

teitoklien wrote: post #23
AshamedCaptain wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

> Surely a website that doesn’t exist but is left to the imagination of the reader

A startup looking for funding, full circle

Re: A website hosted on a floppy disk (Be patient while it's loading)

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Post by CTOSian »

AshamedCaptain wrote: post #14
omgmajk wrote: post #10

Reminds 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?

Punched tape (on loop) would be more suitable :)

Re: A website hosted on a floppy disk (Be patient while it's loading)

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Post by rovr138 »

lopis wrote: post #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.

Having had small CRT monitors, I can't tell if this is true or trolling.
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