On Tue, 18 Jul 2023 at 22:48, Grant Taylor via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> On 7/10/23 10:54 AM, Ali wrote: > > Hello All, > > Hi Ali, > > > I am wondering if anyone has a private or knows of a mirror for > > ftp.compaq.com that is older than 2014? > I'm watching a video talking about Protoweb and one of the ftp sites > that they are talking about is ftp.compaq.com. > > The video in question is: > > Link - Protoweb - Reviving the '90s Internet! (Overview & Demo) > - https://youtu.be/1FSd-XhGLqk > > I'm interested in checking out Protoweb for various reasons, but I > figured that I'd let you, and fellow cctalk subscribers, know about the > ftp.compaq.com archive. > You could have just said "there's a site that set up a proxy server for browsing a moderate number of old mirrors of HTTP and FTP sites" and linked to that site instead of sending us a link to a youtube video. It's https://protoweb.org/ and this definitely seems to be aimed at an audience that wasn't alive when these browsers and websites were around. If it was aimed at the cctech crowd it could have been a very simple webpage that explains that they have an HTTP/FTP/Gopher proxy server at wayback.protoweb.com:7851 and you can then go to www.inode.com to see what's available. Instead that information is hidden under multiple layers of bizarre hand-holding. -Henry
