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

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Post by codazoda »

charcircuit wrote: post #80
rightbyte wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That would remove the fun wouldn't it? I want to believe there is that crunching floppy sound when I press a link.

I've never used a floppy disk before so I wouldn't know that sound. I think making sure your site fits on it could be a challenge.

Making sites fit would be pretty easy. Images will probably be your biggest piece of data.

Sony used to have a floppy disk based digital camera. I think it could take about 20 pictures per disk. Plus, I’m sure you could reduce that size.

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Post by kingcharles »

hnlmorg wrote: post #15

I 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 found one of my earliest web sites from 1996 on a floppy not long ago. It was surprisingly awesome.

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Post by CTOSian »

hooby wrote: post #55
zfxfr wrote: post #43

Unsurprisingly 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)? ;)

are we talking about the same site ? as the pages on the archive org version say: "The specs: .... a 256MB IDE Disk on Module."

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Post by Hokusai »

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/

> Location: Barcelona

That is interesting as in winter and summer you will get a noticeable difference in availability. It varies between 9 and 15 hours of sun a day.

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Post by mrmattyboy »

CTOSian wrote: post #93
hooby wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are you asking about how many requests per second - or about how many request per floppy (before that needs replacing)? ;)

are we talking about the same site ? as the pages on the archive org version say: "The specs: .... a 256MB IDE Disk on Module."

I imagine the OS is on the IDE disk and the floppy disk contains the files for the website

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

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Post by andai »

charcircuit wrote: post #80
rightbyte wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That would remove the fun wouldn't it? I want to believe there is that crunching floppy sound when I press a link.

I've never used a floppy disk before so I wouldn't know that sound. I think making sure your site fits on it could be a challenge.

You could store about 240,000 words, or about 2-3 novels.

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Post by KineticLensman »

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…

> They went to the origin of the signal, only to find a computer turning on and off because of its solar panel, sending messages at every boot.

In the original film [0] and book, the signal is caused by a soda-bottle being knocked by a window-blind against a Morse-code telegraph key.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Beach_(1959_film)

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