Even though he has a brand new high-speed fiber optic internet connection, online backups of YouTube video projects still take hours. ’s latest project is for the birds - literally. (Thanks to for the tip)Ĭontinue reading “Browsing The WWW On A 1980s IBM PC Using MicroWeb” → Posted in internet hacks, Retrocomputing Tagged IBM PC, MicroWeb There’s also the FrogFind service, which will helpfully strip down a target website down to its barest HTML essentials, along with the 68K News site that strips down Google News, so that you can enjoy the WWW in its text-based glory as it would have looked in the early 1980s. Of course, some limitations exist, in that graphics and CSS are not rendered, JavaScript is totally off-limits, and for HTTPS-only websites a workaround like retro-proxy has to be used as TLS encryption would be completely unusable on a couple-of-MHz-CPU.

Do you ever sit at your 1981 vintage IBM PC and get the urge to pop onto that newfangled ‘Of course, you do need to have some kind of way to actually connect to the World Wide Web, which can be an ISA network expansion card, EtherSlip, as well as using a thin client as a network bridge with some Serial Line Interface Protocol (SLIP) action.

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