is the internet so fat and wasted these days..?

junk and more junk for such a thing that started off sooo cool.

i tried to use dial up the other day. funny thing was i was able to access older sites that are mostly text based and have simple images relatively fast.

thinking about this, i have a collection of old laptops, 486-pIII era and old g3/g4 computers and even using them on modern sites almost locks them up as
the browsers dont support the newer standards HTML video, PHP etc..

thing was when i loaded older sites even on ethernet or wifi connections on these old computers worked fine no lock ups or seizures from big fat web scripts.

watching videos online these days for most older PowerPC macs (pre g4) is basically not supported even for win 9x systems

has the internet just become a big slab of garbage too heavy for my old computer to handle? or do i like many who are completely nostalgic about the early days of the internet and online services need to let go of our
dinosaurs? haha


right now i am writing this on my powerbook G4, still my every day computer

do any of you still have older stuff you use on the regular?

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On 26 Aug 19 02:25:56, Chelson said the following to All:

right now i am writing this on my powerbook G4, still my every day computer

do any of you still have older stuff you use on the regular?

An old laptop runs the entire Fidonet Z1C operation.

Atreyu

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On 26 Aug 2019, chelson said the following...

has the internet just become a big slab of garbage too heavy for my old computer to handle? or do i like many who are completely nostalgic about the early days of the internet and online services need to let go of our dinosaurs? haha

right now i am writing this on my powerbook G4, still my every day computer

do any of you still have older stuff you use on the regular?

Absolutely. I have a couple of Atari 8-bits, a TI-99/4A, and Spectrum clone that all go online (with the aid of Raspberry Pis). I've also got an Apple
IIGS that I'd like to get online but haven't started messing with yet.

As for what I do with them online, check out http://irata.online. The
internet is a lot more than the world wide web. Look at us, here, now, for example.

Jeff.

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chelson wrote to All <=-

is the internet so fat and wasted these days..?

junk and more junk for such a thing that started off sooo cool.

[...]

has the internet just become a big slab of garbage too heavy for my old computer to handle? or do i like many who are completely nostalgic
about the early days of the internet and online services need to let go
of our dinosaurs? haha

Yes, it has become mostly junk and garbage. Even the "useful" sites have allowed themselves to be bloated down with ads that slow them to a crawl,
even on a quad-core machine.

IMHO, BBSes are one of the few good things about it.



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or do i like many who are completely nostalgic about
the early days of the internet and online services need to let go of our dinosaurs? haha

DON'T LET GO! There are enough folks trying to erase or even rewrite history, don't loose ours! There is enough room for our history to co-exsist in todays world..were here using BBS' in this day and age talking about it, thats
good! ;)

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I still use a 8 bit BBC B Micro to connect to BBS,s using a serial cable to my pc and a hayes emulator again on the PC The BBC has all of 32k of ram but
boots in less than 1 sec On the BBC I use a ROM based terminal Termulatort
The BBC I use was built in 1983 by Acorn Computers who went on to design RISC chips If you need any more info Im happy to help.
regards
Richard

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