Is there any way to make my site work for vintage computers?

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darkcyde.rf.gd

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I want to make a website to share information so that old computers from the '90s can access it, since most modern websites don’t work on them anymore. But when I try to access it from Netscape Navigator 3.04 Gold on Macintosh System 7, even the most basic html page doesn’t work because of a hidden javascript that isn’t compatible with the javascript that it understands. Is there any way to make this work?

My old PC from the 90’s can still access modern websites. But I am runing linux, with a modern browser installed (yes it was my first laptop, an old think pad, and I still have it… and the keyboard disconnects from time to time)…

But that aside, with the security system requiring JavaScript, if the browser on your old pc doesn’t accept the current version of JavaScript, it wont be able to access a site on Infinity Free

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Damnit! It’s dumb to require informational sites to require https, since there’s no need to encrypt plain text. Guess I’ll look for a different host then, if there are even any that don’t force https for basic sites.

Nevermind I meant javascript.

Please understand that our hosting is used for all kinds of websites. A fully static informational website doesn’t strictly need such security systems, but we also host websites that are much more complex.

If your website is fully static, then you could consider using a static website hosting service instead. Those are often free too.

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probably a silly question, but is there a reason why you can’t install a modern browser on the old pc’s?

I would that something like fire fox, or chromium could run?

or if you’re up for a challenge, install Lubuntu (its a light version of Ubuntu) and that has a modern browser running out the box

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The post refers to a Macintosh System 7. A quick Google search tells me that this OS was first released on 1991. It also uses the Motorola 68k architecture in earlier versions, before Apple switched to PowerPC.

The hardware seems to be too old and too exotic to even run a modern Linux kernel at all.

While I guess it’s a cool project to build a website for such systems, I would strongly recommend against connecting museum piece hardware like that to the internet. It lacks support for all modern security standards (anything that enforces HTTPS is a no-go because it just doesn’t support any modern SSL/TLS standard).

So I think I’m going to backtrack on my previous reply, and recommend you just host the website somewhere in your own network instead and just make sure that this old Macintosh cannot reach the internet. You’re going to run into problems with basically any contemporary hosting service due to how ancient your system is.

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Ah ok fair enough. I’m not a Mac guy so I didn’t realise that it was on the old m68k architecture.

… Personally at that point I’d leave it off line

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Neither did I, I read the Wikipedia article first too. Never heard of that architecture before even.

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I just read “old computers from the '90s” and instantly jumped to one of my prefered hobbies of installing linux on old pcs haha

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