On 2025-07-18, Jason Howe <
jason@tatooine.smbfc.net> wrote:
Considering I'm currently using my Atari800 over a 2400 baud dial-up connection
to read and respond to this message, I should probably go check out that site!
--Jason
On Wed, 16 Jul 2025 07:12:14 -0000 (UTC), anthk <anthk@openbsd.home> wrote:
From http://occ.deadnet.se/
The Old Computer Challenge was conceived by Solene Rapenne in 2021,
inviting people from all walks of life to experience a single week in
July with an old machine. The aim of that challenge was to both
highlight and downplay the importance of modern hardware and the recent
world of popular technology.
Also:
gopher://occ.deadnet.se
gemini://occ.deadnet.se
Do it, there's no formal 'challenge' but your own.
In my case, I 'survived' a web with GNU Emacs in an Atom netbook as my
only computing environment except for the window manager. IRC,
Usenet, music playing and even epub reading over Emacs. And gaming
(ZMachine text adventures, Sokoban, some Tetris and a few more).
On that baud rate, except for a brief 56K (actually lower) connection
I've tried at the early high school times, the lowest connection
I tried to do my stuff was 2G (between modem/ISDN speeds) with Mosh,
which is a light bandwidth using and seamless reconnecting SSH.
Forget proper SSH without
latency, the web was near impossible without Links being run in a
*remote* Unix machine, even light sites.
Over Mosh it flied, I found no difference.
Usenet (locally) did it fine with a bit of patience,
as I use slrnpull to download a spool. Gopher and IRC were
almost the same as broadband minus some big places
with tons of comments (I used to read Reddit over
gopher://gopherddit.com, now it doesn't work).
gopher://magical.fish might work well on an Atari 400. It might
needs tons of word-wrapping, or maybe you can find some terminal
software to set a 80x24/25 screen...
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