On: How I introduced a 27-year-old computer to the web

[Zardoz84]

This server is running in a real 80286 ! : http://www.mundoviejuno.com/ Do a "cd info" and "type faq.txt"

Also, there is more older machine connected to internet that these MAC : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ECnN7jdgA4

[Stratoscope → Zardoz84]

Well, the server may be an 80286, but as its faq.txt says, that's not the machine you're talking to once the page is loaded. It's just a JavaScript console simulation:

http://www.mundoviejuno.com/bios286.png

http://www.mundoviejuno.com/terminal.js

Of course it is cool to see an old 286 serving anything, even static pages like this...

[goeric → Stratoscope]

All the 286 is serving you ~70kb of HTML5 and Javascript. The rest is done on your computer.

[bobbles → Zardoz84]

Hmm when I opened this thread I didn't expect to be playing Pong on a 286 over the internet.. but here I am

[Stratoscope → bobbles]

Use the Source, Luke.

view-source:http://www.mundoviejuno.com/pong.htm

http://www.mundoviejuno.com/pong.js

You're playing Pong on your own machine, implemented in jQuery UI. The 286 is just serving the static files.

[kken → bobbles]

The pong game does not look like anything a 286 could do. You have never used a 286 in real life, have you?

[arethuza → kken]

I've seen ~6 people using serial terminals to a "server" running Xenix on a 286 with SQL database applications - this was in late '88.

My mouse probably has more computing power now.... :-)