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Are we restricting format? Because queries like '"index of" pcx 1991' will reveal quite a bit (or TGA, TIFF, and PICT). Whether they've been up since the early 90s is another question.

I created a tool that will show you the images in the apache directory listings. Here's an example

http://9ol.es/apache-img.php?u=http://aries.ucsd.edu/ICONS/A...

These kinds of old icon libraries can be a good source for finding old sites. Here's more from that same domain

http://9ol.es/apache-img.php?u=http://aries.ucsd.edu/ICONS/I...

I used this technique to find an old icon set for the promotional page to some software of mine to give it a 1993 feel http://bootstra386.com

I Need to go back and finish that...

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I really appreciate the small details in that page... Such as using Date.getYear() instead of Date.getFullYear() to render the year in the guestbook, so the years are all 19121. Ha!

It's actually slightly more work to break things. Line 6:

https://github.com/kristopolous/BOOTSTRA.386/blob/master/hom...

Also the site totally works in Netscape Navigator 2.02 and renders nearly identical down to the pixel

Careful observers will note the Easter egg :)

I'll bring the Pentium 90 up if people want, I moved the main site to a raspberry pi just for power reasons

Edit: i brought it up. The link on the main page works. I'll probably not being back the twitch stream unless there's demand though

Edit 2: brought the ssh and telnet back up as well

Edit 3: The source for the image browser: http://9ol.es/pre.php?url=apache-img.php

Thanks for this nostalgia. It was so easy to browse web servers in the 90s.

http://9ol.es/beauty.php?url=/etc/passwd

http://9ol.es/beauty.php?url=/proc/version

http://9ol.es/beauty.php?url=/proc/uptime

Now it's time to put it offline.

it's cool. I leave machines completely open for people to create free accounts on.

So it's not something I actually care about, at all. I've actually used that tool to point to various system files doing exactly that strategy.

So feel free to create an account on the pentium 90, find my printers ip address and make it print me a message. I'll find it exciting and adorable.

edit: I looked at the log, looks like you guys are having fun poking around my system. I love the creativity. enjoy. Be sure to reply with any epic exploits. I'm genuinely excited to see what you find.

I just plugged in a webcam. See if you can snap a picture! I'll give 0.1LTC to the first paparazzi.

I am going to do my damndnest to shoehorn BOOTSTRA/386 into a project at work. It's goddamned beautiful.

Sweet. I keep meaning to getting back to finishing my latest version and making the floppies but yeah, time management is a perennial challenge.

I used to schedule appointments with myself but it's so hard to keep up the act, sleeping in and doing nothing all day is so nice.

I guess we need to keep in mind that index of is going to report file creation date, and it's hard to know when the file actually entered the web vs. "Was created, someone left it on disk, and then started a web server."

I still have emails in my homedir from 1990. Ugh.

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