In 1988 I worked at Boeing Aerospace at Cape Canaveral in procurement and was responsible for online purchases from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Base Exchange. I am trying to remember if we used a browser or if it was proprietary, but am drawing a blank. My machine was an HP 150.
On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 7:10 AM, Mateusz Viste <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm surprised you didn't mention Gopher as one of the things you when in > your time machine :) That's one of the things I enjoy during my > (Free)DOS sessions. > > BTW, how cool would it be to have a gopher interface to SF.net, like the > one there is for wikipedia? > > Mateusz > > > > On 19/06/2015 12:53, Don Flowers wrote: > > I use Dillo, but I accept and perhaps appreciate its limitations. By > > this I mean that when in FreeDOS, I am in a different "time zone" > > (1993?) and there were only so many things that you could do online back > > then in a DOS browser and whatever you could do was in a text browser so > > DILLO is definitely an upgrade. When in FreeDOS, I do DOS things. I > > browse the WEB, I read Wikipedia, I check my email (gmail HTML) and I > > search for and download DOS shareware/freeware. My only frustration is > > that SF is not available. > > > > On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 11:17 PM, Rugxulo <[email protected] > > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > Keep in mind that I'm not very savvy about networking, so this is > just > > links (no pun intended!) to various things! > > > > On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 7:00 PM, John Hupp <[email protected] > > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > > > > > I installed Arachne on the current rig (Pentium 150, 64MB) and > found > > > that Google search returns a blank page, and DuckDuckGo produces > some sort of loop. > > > I found a post or two on Vogons.org noting the same. > > > > I don't know. Presumably Google is just pushing (too) hard these days > > for everything to be HTTPS/SSL + Javascript and similar (which > Arachne > > doesn't support, IIRC). Heck, even YouTube and Gmail (partially) > whine > > about Iceweasel 22.0, which (AFAIK) is barely two years old. > > > > > Ready to settle for the speed and stability of text mode, I turned > next > > > to Lynx, but I couldn't seem to get a good download of Lynx 2.8.7. > > > > I've not tried it, but iBiblio has this: > > > > 1). > > > http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/net/lynx/2.8.7/ > > > > There's also a newer 2.8.8 build by Juan for DJGPP (under > > /beta/v2tk/), but it sounds very complicated to setup, so I never > > bothered. > > > > 2). > > > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.os.msdos.djgpp/flY264GkHV8 > > > > > So I tried Dillo, which is graphical. Though it thrashes the hard > drive > > > a fair amount, it did work in a quick checkout. This was v3.02b > from > > > > http://nanox-microwindows-nxlib-fltk-for-dos.googlecode.com/files/DILLODOS-302b.zip > , > > > written by Georg Potthast. > > > > It's also available here: > > > > 3). > > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/fltk-dos/files/Applications/Binary%20versions%20of%20FLTK%20applications/ > > > > You could also try D+ (which evolved from Dillo-Win32, which I think > > was loosely based upon Georg's work as well): > > > > 4). > > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/dplus-browser/files/Releases/dplus-0.5b/ > > > > > Perhaps someone here will have more to say on the topic of web > browsers. > > > > One of the better choices these days would be Links2: > > > > 5). http://links.twibright.com/ > > 6). > http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/net/links/ > > 7). http://www.bttr-software.de/forum/board_entry.php?id=14199 > > > > IIRC, the "lite" .EXE lacks both HTTPS/SSL and graphical support, > > unlike the full version. > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > > Freedos-user mailing list > > [email protected] > > <mailto:[email protected]> > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Freedos-user mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user >
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