From fdda580bfd0173dc50a51fb8dd7f38c9def0639c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Markstedt Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2021 10:39:01 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] Updated Vintage Web Proxy (markdown) --- Vintage-Web-Proxy.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Vintage-Web-Proxy.md b/Vintage-Web-Proxy.md index 0403c02..4103d7f 100644 --- a/Vintage-Web-Proxy.md +++ b/Vintage-Web-Proxy.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ # Introduction -If you're reading this, you may just have gotten your vintage computer online, through RaSCSI's DaynaPORT adapter emulation, other any other means. And now you're asking yourself, what's next? While a vintage computer is excellent for [telneting into a BBS](https://www.pcmag.com/news/7-modern-bbses-worth-calling-today) such as Level 29, or browsing websites made for vintage computers such as http://www.theoldnet.com or http://68k.news. +If you're reading this, you may just have gotten your vintage computer online, through RaSCSI's [DaynaPORT adapter emulation](https://github.com/akuker/RASCSI/wiki/Dayna-Port-SCSI-Link), other any other means. And now you're asking yourself, what's next? While a vintage computer is excellent for [telneting into a BBS](https://www.pcmag.com/news/7-modern-bbses-worth-calling-today) such as Level 29, or browsing websites made for vintage computers such as http://www.theoldnet.com or http://68k.news. However, the broader modern Web is an unforgiving place for a vintage computer and its equally vintage browsers. The sheet amount of data that they send to the user agent, javascript libraries thousands of lines long, massive images in exotic formats, multimedia, etc... It may take minutes to load a page, and minutes more to parse and reflow the DOM over and over, and you're lucky if it doesn't crash when running out of memory.