Wow this brings me back to my early internet days on Freenet.

On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 1:09 AM, Kevin <[email protected]> wrote:

> As a fun sort of test, I made Lynx available within the web browser:
>
> http://lynx.veroneau.net/
>
> I have run Lynx with the following options to enable a "restricted
> environment":
> lynx -accept_all_cookies -use-mouse -restrictions=all -homepage=
> http://www.google.ca/ http://www.google.ca/
>
>   The cookies are flushed regardless, and this was the only way to stop
> Lynx from nagging about each cookie.  Oddly, Lynx doesn't support
> rejecting of all cookies either through the command-line, through it's
> lynx.cfg, or even through it's "Options" page.
>
>   As the command-line above shows, it will display Google right away on
> the screen.  The mouse even works, so you can click onto the search
> box, type a search, then click "Google Search" to begin. Just realized
> that their copyright still says "2013".
>
>   I also won't be keeping this around for very long either, as I can
> expect abuse if the link was provided to the outside world.  However, I
> do plan on using this exact technology in the near future for another
> project.
>
> On Mon, 27 Jan 2014 23:40:35 -0600
> Kevin <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Hey everybody!
> >
> >   I'm sure most(if not all) of you have seen this website built using
> > the Google search API to resemble Google from a BBS terminal:
> >
> > http://www.masswerk.at/googleBBS/
> >
> >   Heard about this years ago, and thought I'd share it with all of you,
> > since it is a very hackish type of thing that someone made.  I
> > personally think it would be neat to make a basic BBS system that calls
> the
> > Google API just for fun.  Of course it would go through telnet like most
> > modern BBSs do these days...  Yes, BBSs are still around!
> >
> >   If anyone here is curious at seeing/connecting to them, I attached my
> > own personal list of BBS servers.  Some of these servers are actually
> > archives from old BBSs that ran decades ago, full with software
> > archives, text files, and even door games!  Then came our current
> > advertisement filled Internet we see and sorta love today.  Unlike the
> > BBSs of days past, these modern BBSs connect via a TCP/telnet
> > connection.
> >
> > --
> > Kevin <[email protected]>
>
>
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> Kevin <[email protected]>
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