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| Have se/30 on internet—now what? | |
| Posted by: mloret on 2024-05-08 15:28:14 Hello! With a bluescsi v2 I was able to connect my se/39 to the internet. I launched a browser and found that it was painfully slow, so surfing the web is probs my not going to be great with this uncelebrated machine. I was wondering if someone might suggest some BBS option for me or some other fun ways to use the internet with my SE/30? Thank you! | |
| Posted by: cheesestraws on 2024-05-08 15:51:54 I've never really understood why people are so keen to get those machines on the Internet - there's really very little to do once you're on it other than go "well, this is bad at being on the Internet, ok". | |
| Posted by: mloret on 2024-05-08 16:34:39 You may have a point but dammit I wanna find a use! If for nothing else than to say “well, I connected to a bbs and it was lousy.” | |
| Posted by: Realitystorm on 2024-05-08 16:34:47 I think it's more of a personal challenge of "can I make this work" and/or nostalgia. I know when I played around with ARA + serial + Basilisk II as an internet gateway it was the first category. Looking at websites rendered in Mosaic for me, falls into the second. | |
Posted by: Nixontheknight on 2024-05-08 16:36:49Hello! With a bluescsi v2 I was able to connect my se/39 to the internet. I launched a browser and found that it was painfully slow, so surfing the web is probs my not going to be great with this uncelebrated machine. I was wondering if someone might suggest some BBS option for me or some other fun ways to use the internet with my SE/30? Thank you!bbs.fozztexx.net on port 23 and cqbbs.ddns.net on port 6800, use Black Night for the best experience. Also, use MR Browser to get stuff on the SE/30 | |
| Posted by: Mk.558 on 2024-05-08 17:18:59 Gopher. | |
| Posted by: davewongillies on 2024-05-08 17:26:40 Hotline BBSs | |
| Posted by: slipperygrey on 2024-05-08 23:30:55 Coming back to the web for a moment, you could set up a web proxy on another machine that transcodes modern web sites to primitive html. A 68030 machine should be pretty capable at rendering text centric pages from hackernews or arstechnica in MacWeb or Netscape 2, say. Shameless plug: try my fork of macproxy: https://github.com/rdmark/macproxy | |
| Posted by: slomacuser on 2024-05-09 03:54:09 Bookmark this pages: --------------------------------------------------
Apps for Internet: --------------------------------------------------
Bookmark on Mac OS 9 machine: --------------------------------------------------
There is probably more 🙂 but it is a good start | |
Posted by: Nixontheknight on 2024-05-09 09:02:08Bookmark this pages:and mac84.net, he has a link to a lot of different sites for old macs on his retro site | |
Posted by: ironborn65 on 2024-05-10 01:27:51Coming back to the web for a moment, you could set up a web proxy on another machine that transcodes modern web sites to primitive html. A 68030 machine should be pretty capable at rendering text centric pages from hackernews or arstechnica in MacWeb or Netscape 2, say.or https://github.com/tenox7/wrp it's the one I have installed in my lan it sends a clickable image of any web site | |
| Posted by: ironborn65 on 2024-05-10 01:44:36 I found this while searching for other proxies... 
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| Posted by: mikes-macs on 2024-05-10 02:52:23 You could run NetPresenz | |
| Posted by: joshc on 2024-05-10 04:15:27 Now you can take over the world. | |
Posted by: mloret on 2024-05-10 16:14:21bbs.fozztexx.net on port 23 and cqbbs.ddns.net on port 6800, use Black Night for the best experience. Also, use MR Browser to get stuff on the SE/30Thank you. Where do I get the pin for MR Browser? | |
Posted by: Nixontheknight on 2024-05-10 16:43:34Thank you. Where do I get the pin for MR Browser?https://www.macintoshrepository.org/44146-mr-browser | |
| Posted by: MacUp72 on 2024-05-11 03:12:30 | |
Posted by: ironborn65 on 2024-05-11 11:46:23I've never really understood why people are so keen to get those machines on the Internet - there's really very little to do once you're on it other than go "well, this is bad at being on the Internet, ok".It recalls my friends of mine are asking "Why bother fixing PCs that now are useless'?" I reply "Because I like it" 😀 | |
| Posted by: Juror22 on 2024-05-11 14:23:33 I don't know if this helped @mloret , but I'm bookmarking this thread! | |
Posted by: cheesestraws on 2024-05-11 14:49:29I reply "Because I like it" 😀 That's a totally fair comment :-D | |
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