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https://www.compuserve.com is the same thing. Oath/Verizon is keeping these sites on some kind of life support to this day.
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.
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…
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 loaded fast. Also, seeing the network request for background gradients takes me back to an era of CSS I don't miss. Anyone remember the hacks for drop shadows and rounded corners?
> That loaded fast. After getting through the order-of-magnitude slower cookie consent page, yes.
Holy those pages load fast. Design feels slightly dated but the speed is fantastic.
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…
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…
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.
How? If that were true, WiFi range extenders would violate TOS as well.
DNS ad-blocking shows up a fair number of these methods because the sites become unavailable (not a bad thing)
Latest fetch: https://web.archive.org/web/20210408062043/https://isp.netsc...
Earliest fetch (2004): https://web.archive.org/web/20040205013205/http://www.isp.ne...