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Sknebel: add link to a page listing more

2022-05-23T22:56:02Z

add link to a page listing more

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	https://lite.cnn.com/en		https://lite.cnn.com/en

			=== additional collections of such pages/tools ===
			https://github.com/ssshake/retro-computing-internet-resources

Sknebel: Undo revision 459 by Sknebel (talk)

2022-05-12T18:03:47Z

Undo revision 459 by Sknebel (talk)

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	https://lite.cnn.com/en		https://lite.cnn.com/en

	~~=== blogs etc ===~~
	~~Hackaday maintains a retro-compatible version of their blog: http://retro.hackaday.com/~~

Sknebel: link hackaday retroedition

2022-05-12T18:03:00Z

link hackaday retroedition

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	https://lite.cnn.com/en		https://lite.cnn.com/en

			=== blogs etc ===
			Hackaday maintains a retro-compatible version of their blog: http://retro.hackaday.com/

Sknebel: add example

2022-05-12T17:58:09Z

add example

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	=== general internet/proxies ===		=== general internet/proxies ===
	http://frogfind.com/ - "The Search Engine for Vintage Computers" - "The search functionality of FrogFind is basically a custom wrapper for DuckDuckGo search, converting the results to extremely basic HTML that old browsers can read. When clicking through to pages from search results, those pages are processed through a PHP port of Mozilla's Readability, which is what powers Firefox's reader mode. I then further strip down the results to be as basic HTML as possible."		http://frogfind.com/ - "The Search Engine for Vintage Computers" - "The search functionality of FrogFind is basically a custom wrapper for DuckDuckGo search, converting the results to extremely basic HTML that old browsers can read. When clicking through to pages from search results, those pages are processed through a PHP port of Mozilla's Readability, which is what powers Firefox's reader mode. I then further strip down the results to be as basic HTML as possible."
			* this can be sort-of used to e.g. read a HTTP-only version of this wiki: http://frogfind.com/read.php?a=https://wiki.emfcamp.org/wiki/Main_Page, but navigation links etc are stripped sadly

	=== Weather ===		=== Weather ===

Sknebel: start with some initial content

2022-05-12T17:52:30Z

start with some initial content

New page

Collection of sites that should be accessible over slow connections and/or on retro hardware. A main restriction for the latter are pages that require HTTPS - best practice has left retro-systems far behind.

=== general internet/proxies ===
http://frogfind.com/ - "The Search Engine for Vintage Computers" - "The search functionality of FrogFind is basically a custom wrapper for DuckDuckGo search, converting the results to extremely basic HTML that old browsers can read. When clicking through to pages from search results, those pages are processed through a PHP port of Mozilla's Readability, which is what powers Firefox's reader mode. I then further strip down the results to be as basic HTML as possible."

=== Weather ===
https://wttr.in/Eastnor (requires HTTPS, could be hosted without: https://github.com/chubin/wttr.in)

=== News ===
(all require HTTPS)

https://www.cbc.ca/lite/news

https://text.npr.org

https://lite.cnn.com/en