Comment by defrost
12 hours ago
I am going to run this in Windows 95 on a Sun PC card under Solaris 7.
from the same commenter who effused
jesus fucking christ this is an abomination of epic proportions that has no right to exist in a just universe and I love it so much
Humans are weird and can loath and desire a thing at the same time; the success of Brutalism for example.
/off to fire up Windows95 on the Octane2 and get me some hot Linux action ..
Wait until you find IE was released for Unix, using some Win32 shims. And... die hard Unix sysadmin ran it under FVWM and compared to Netscape wasn't half bad. Both propietary, but sadly NScape didn't open Mozilla yet, and the rest of the alternatives such as Arena/Amaya coudn't compete with 'modern' CSS features and the like.
Speaking of vintage IE and Netscape on old Win, it's actually still possible to use them to browse the modern web if you proxy it.
I built a Win9x compatibility mode for BrowserBox that does exactly this (https://github.com/BrowserBox/BrowserBox/blob/main/readme-fi...). Ur modern server does all the rendering, and it outputs a client link specifically designed for legacy browsers like IE5, IE6, and Netscape running on Windows 95/98/NT, streaming them the pixels. It's definitely an abomination, but there's something magical and retro that I like about viewing the 2026 internet through an IE6 window ;) ;p xx
There are better ways:
- Retrozilla with some about:config flags disabling old SSL cyphers and new keys to enable newer ones
- Iron TCL maybe with KernelEx and BFGXP from https://luxferre.top reading gopher and gemini sites such as gemini://gemi.dev proxying all the web bloat and slimming it down like crazy
- Same Gemini URL, but thru http://portal.mozz.us/gemini . Double proxy in the end, but it will be readable.