Short notes, all the Cool Personal Homepages, screenshots, links.
Apropos ancient predecessors.. Did you know the NLS (oN-Line System), "a revolutionary computer collaboration system developed in the 1960s", supported videoconferencing back in 1968? The whole Wikipedia article is wild! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NLS_(computer_system)
I wish that deranged collaboration tool #teams we are being tortured with nowadays would be more like its ancient predecessor: Microsoft #NetMeeting. Its feature set was ahead of its time and the clean, native UI was made for productivity. Unfortunately - besides being EOL - it doesn't support IPv6 & is based on H.323, which means it won't work behind NAT offhand.
I really like personal homepages and have quite a list of them bookmarked. I'll post one every week until I don't. So here's Cool Personal Homepages #CPH Vol. 3: evergreen's corner https://elj.me/
Just discovered #myfirstdistro and here's mine: #Suse #Linux 6.0 - It happened at a second-hand shop for hard- and software; between Data Becker and MS Frontpage boxes there was a copy of Suse. The back-cover had a screenshot of what looked very similar to Chigago shell, just a little different. It was #KDE 2. That was when I first realised that there are obviously other systems to operate PCs. I bought that box for 5 Deutsche Mark. 🙃 One week later I managed to successfully start #XFree86 😅
I really like personal homepages and have quite a list of them bookmarked. I'll post one every week until I don't. So here's Cool Personal Homepages #CPH Vol. 2: The Almighty Guru http://www.thealmightyguru.com/
I really like personal homepages and have quite a list of them bookmarked. I'll post one every week until I don't. So here's Cool Personal Homepages #CPH Vol. 1: THE CYBER VANGUARD http://cyber.dabamos.de/
I recently stumbled upon Kristall - "a browser without support for css/js/wasm or graphical websites. It can display user-styled documents in several formats, including gemini, html, markdown, … provided by a server via gemini, gopher, http, finger, …" As it supports not only Gemini & Gopher, but also HTTP/S, it's a nice way to view a stripped down version of the web. 💙
https://kristall.random-projects.net/
(Kristall)
The good news is: Sites like this one still exist. 💙 https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/
And there's Chicaco95 Plus! 😅 You've got to love it!
https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95/tree/master/Plus
(Plus! for Chicago95)
PS: I wrote a blog post on Chicago95.
use Lingua::Romana::Perligata; #Perl for the XXI-imum Century
"If you have to ask "Why?", then the answer probably won't make any sense to you either." 😅 https://users.monash.edu/~damian/papers/HTML/Perligata.html
PS: Damian Conway, the author of this package, also wrote "Object Oriented Perl" (Manning, 1999), a programming book I really enjoyed! https://users.monash.edu/~damian/papers/HTML/Perligata.html
♻ Consider the environment before printing this page!