I had a lot of fun with my modems these past few days:
https://www.uninformativ.de/blog/postings/2025-05-31/0/POSTING-en.html
@prologic@twtxt.net Mosaic (2.7) works fine, I maintain that package in the AUR and test my website regularly. 😅
My website is compatible with many old browsers, but Internet Explorer 3, uhm, not so much.
Maybe you’ll enjoy this as well:
I still have one of my first modems, a Creatix LC 144 VF:
I think this was the modem that I used when I first connected to the internet, but I’m not sure.
I plugged it in again and it still works:
The firmware appears to be from 1994, which sounds about right. I don’t think we had internet access before that. We certainly did use local mailboxes, though. (Or BBS’s, as you might call them.)
I now want to actually use that modem again. For the moment, I can only use a phone to dial into it, I lack a second modem to actually establish a connection. Here’s a video:
Not spectacular, but the modem does answer after me entering ATA
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I bought another cheap old modem on eBay and am now waiting for it to arrive. Once it’s here, I want to simulate an actual dial-up session, hopefully from OS/2 or Windows 3.x.
Happy to report that the neighbor has started playing Tschaikowski on their piano. And they’re getting really good at it! This is awesome. 😍
Wanna read something very scary?
Your future doctor is using ChatGPT to pass medical school, so you better start riding a bike and eating healthy now.
😨😨😨
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org @kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz Actual family photo:
https://movq.de/v/bfd455ecfe/tux1.jpg
I have another one on my keychain and a small one in the car. And this little guy is probably hard to spot in the photo, because he’s just 1cm tall:
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Nope, this is some random photo. 😅
@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz inb4 https://movq.de/v/c8b084d52d/s.png