Browse the web like its 1999

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Post by axiomdata316 » Thu, Dec 30, 2021, 6:40 AM UTC

Browse the web like its 1999
oldweb.today

Re: Browse the web like its 1999

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Post by _fizz_buzz_ » Thu, Dec 30, 2021, 8:09 AM UTC

I love it. It should have an option for setting the modem speed, to give you the real experience of waiting 30s for each image to load.

Re: Browse the web like its 1999

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Post by chilling » Thu, Dec 30, 2021, 8:20 AM UTC

Those times were full of patience. I don't miss that but definitely the people across different forums and pseudo online-dating chats.

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Post by sh4un » Thu, Dec 30, 2021, 8:24 AM UTC

Oh man, I remember having to install trumpet Winsock or something like that to get the net working on Windows 3.1

I think at that time we just used it to browse wais.

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Post by themodelplumber » Thu, Dec 30, 2021, 8:36 AM UTC

Did anybody here ever use the ISDN data ports in payphones in Japan? I remember seeing them here and there in 1998 (IIRC). At the time I wondered about popping over to one and getting on the web just to see how it would work. ISDN was serious biz to my mind at that time, compared to rural USA dialup.

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Post by 123pie123 » Thu, Dec 30, 2021, 8:40 AM UTC

great stuff

although altavista.com site doesn't work very well

I automatically used that as my first choice of website to use

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Post by marban » Thu, Dec 30, 2021, 8:42 AM UTC

One thing that doesn't get mentioned enough is that you needed a plugin to allow for file uploads in IE3. The actual Read/Write Web in the making.

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Post by jankovicsandras » Thu, Dec 30, 2021, 9:03 AM UTC

Opening this without JavaScript (Noscript) gave me a blank grey page. Sorry, but the web had content without JS in 1999.

Re: Browse the web like its 1999

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Post by glanzwulf » Thu, Dec 30, 2021, 9:06 AM UTC

jankovicsandras wrote: post #8

Opening this without JavaScript (Noscript) gave me a blank grey page. Sorry, but the web had content without JS in 1999.

There's a JS emulator to recreate the browser/windows experience as it was in those days. Inside that emulator you get the web from 1999.

Re: Browse the web like its 1999

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Post by lopis » Thu, Dec 30, 2021, 9:07 AM UTC

jankovicsandras wrote: post #8

Opening this without JavaScript (Noscript) gave me a blank grey page. Sorry, but the web had content without JS in 1999.

Are you seriously complaining that this emulator of several operating systems and old browsers doesn't run inside a modern browser without javascript? I really hope you're kidding.