Ok, folks.. last week I shared a link, 68k.news, that is just a news parser that displays all news sources in pure, wonderful, textm0de.

Well, I have more this week and... I want to make sure I give the credit to who deserves it.

ACTION RETRO is a youtuber with 17,000 followers - meaning, he's pretty small... I hope all of you will go add ACTION RETRO, because he's the one who developed BOTH of the links I'm gonna share today.

68k.news - Huge textm0de news parser, with tons of sources. Read the news on
any retro computer, or anywhere you want TEXT NEWS!

frogfind.com - Powered by DuckDuckGo, ACTION RETRO has coded up a fully internet 1.0 search site that allows us to branch out and go to
ANY internet-site without the web 2.0 stuff! It will display
VERY basic images; you can view these on a vintage Apple ][e; or basically ANY computer you could throw at it!

These two sites are retro-computing heaven... I hope you'll goto youtube and add ACTION RETRO; I don't think he's done just yet!



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I have done so!

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68k.news - Huge textm0de news parser, with tons of sources. Read the
news on any retro computer, or anywhere you want TEXT NEWS!

wow cool, i'll have to check it out.

Thanks
- Gamecube Buddy

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Ok, folks.. last week I shared a link, 68k.news, that is just a news parser that displays all news sources in pure, wonderful, textm0de.

Reading this site is now part of my daily workflow, it is great to read
modern pages on a text browser and it is so fast!

ACTION RETRO is a youtuber with 17,000 followers - meaning, he's pretty small... I hope all of you will go add ACTION RETRO, because he's the
one who developed BOTH of the links I'm gonna share today.

I subbed and watched the video on how he coded these sites, very ingenious
use of existing tech. Hope he gets more subscribers.

frogfind.com - Powered by DuckDuckGo, ACTION RETRO has coded up a fully
internet 1.0 search site that allows us to branch out and go to
ANY internet-site without the web 2.0 stuff! It will

Thanks for the pointers. With this and Gopher I feel like I'm time traveling
to a past with better internet.

RenMas

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Thanks for the pointers. With this and Gopher I feel like I'm time traveling to a past with better internet.
RenMas

Oh, totally - I'm not wizard, I just found a couple good texty links and knew where I need to share them. :P Hyjinx of Als Geek Lab (youtube) had already done a video on Frogfind when I 'told him about' the links... :P So I was late for some, but glad they found you just in time....

Cheers.



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These two sites are retro-computing heaven... I hope you'll goto
youtube and add ACTION RETRO; I don't think he's done just yet!

thanks for the suggestions. I will have to check these out!



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Renagademaster wrote to paulie420 <=-

Thanks for the pointers. With this and Gopher I feel like I'm time traveling to a past with better internet.

Check out Gemini - it's like a heavier Gopher or a lighter web, and easy to mark up. Good client support and a growing userspace.

http://gemini.circumlunar.space


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Re: Re: more textm0de/www awesomeness!
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Renagademaster on Tue Apr 13 2021 06:55 am

Renagademaster wrote to paulie420 <=-

Thanks for the pointers. With this and Gopher I feel like I'm time traveling to a past with better internet.

Check out Gemini - it's like a heavier Gopher or a lighter web, and easy to mark up. Good client support and a growing userspace.

http://gemini.circumlunar.space

... The Colonies of Man lie trampled at our feet.

Yeah, there is a nice article about Gemini in this month's Linux Magazine. I like the fact they designed the protocol specifically to be bloat resistant.

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paulie420 wrote (2021-04-10):

frogfind.com - Powered by DuckDuckGo, ACTION RETRO has coded up a fully
internet 1.0 search site that allows us to branch out and
go to ANY internet-site without the web 2.0 stuff! It will display VERY basic images; you can view these on a vintage Apple ][e;
or basically ANY computer you could throw at it!

Very nice, I don't even need an ad-blocker :)

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Hello Oli!

** On Sunday 18.04.21 - 09:39, Oli wrote to paulie420:

paulie420 wrote (2021-04-10):

frogfind.com - Powered by DuckDuckGo, ACTION RETRO has coded..
..basically ANY computer you could throw at it!

Very nice, I don't even need an ad-blocker :)

It *is* a very nice trick. Perfect for some sites that force you
to enable adblockers before they show content. But even then,
the results are hit'n'miss.

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Ogg wrote (2021-04-18):

frogfind.com - Powered by DuckDuckGo, ACTION RETRO has coded..
..basically ANY computer you could throw at it!

Very nice, I don't even need an ad-blocker :)

It *is* a very nice trick. Perfect for some sites that force you
to enable adblockers before they show content. But even then,
the results are hit'n'miss.

True, some sites only show garbled Javascript code or some ROT13-style text or nothing.

In general (without frogfind / 68k.news) I wish websites would offer better semantic markup and would work without Javascript. A few do, but most are a mess...

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Re: more textm0de/www awesomeness!
By: Oli to Ogg on Mon Apr 19 2021 10:02 am

Ogg wrote (2021-04-18):

frogfind.com - Powered by DuckDuckGo, ACTION RETRO has coded..
..basically ANY computer you could throw at it!

Very nice, I don't even need an ad-blocker :)

It *is* a very nice trick. Perfect for some sites that force you
to enable adblockers before they show content. But even then,
the results are hit'n'miss.

True, some sites only show garbled Javascript code or some ROT13-style text nothing.

In general (without frogfind / 68k.news) I wish websites would offer better semantic markup and would work without Javascript. A few do, but most are a mess...

I browse with JS off by default. If you use Firefox or the Tor Browser Bundle, most sites you can read using Reader MOde even with Javascript turned off.

If the site is not readable without javascript I usually just skip it. I think javascript overloading is lazy design. There are legit reasons for using javascript on sites but most designs just use it for the sake of it :-(

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* Origin: Palantir * palantirbbs.ddns.net * Pensacola, FL * (21:2/138)

frogfind.com - Powered by DuckDuckGo, ACTION RETRO has coded up a full
internet 1.0 search site that allows us to branch out an go to ANY internet-site without the web 2.0 stuff! It will display VER basic images; you can view these on a vintage Apple ][e;
or basically ANY computer you could throw at it!

Very nice, I don't even need an ad-blocker :)

I've been using this and I really like it, too.

Its especially awesome when used on older retro hardware... it will display an image, all the way down to Applie ][e quality. Thats really cool, to surf the web with an Apple ][. Or, you can fire up a Classic Mac OS and it works really nicely, even under emulation.

I like all these tools - just made by other retro enthusiasts like us. So coolio.



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It *is* a very nice trick. Perfect for some sites that force you
to enable adblockers before they show content. But even then,
the results are hit'n'miss.
../|ug

I agree with you on that point. But, for actual retro machines its much better than nothing! And, I like to offer frogfind.com to my BBS users. Its sans the images, but still a nice way for them to be able to browse the 'web'.



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