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    From Mike Powell@1:2320/107 to KURT WEISKE on Sun Mar 29 10:18:59 2026
    Return to 1mhz computing?

    Text-only is the way to go. I remember polling email over dialup/POP,
    and it worked just fine. Early web pages, also fine. Once companies got
    online, downloading an unoptimized gif file with an image map took a
    while.

    As an aside, if you now try to use a web browser like links to access google.com, instead of getting a text version you get an error message
    about needing to update your browser.

    This is with using the gui version of links2 on an up-to-date debian box.

    duckduckgo.com still works just fine.

    There could be some text web browsers that have found a way around that,
    but it shows how some companies try to discourage this.

    Mike

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  • From Kurt Weiske@1:218/700 to Mike Powell on Sun Mar 29 10:36:38 2026
    Mike Powell wrote to KURT WEISKE <=-

    As an aside, if you now try to use a web browser like links to access google.com, instead of getting a text version you get an error message about needing to update your browser.

    There was a passthrough proxy meant for older GUI browsers - that might
    work for text browsing as well?


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  • From Rob Mccart@1:2320/107 to KURT WEISKE on Thu Mar 26 06:40:15 2026
    We live in an awesome world, bandwidth-wise. I've got a 600/40 cable
    >circuit and am thinking of upgrading to a symmetric gig circuit. What
    >would this world do if we had to go back to DSL speeds - or dialup?

    I was on dialup much later than most since there was nothing else
    available here. Forget Fiber, our ancient Bell Boxes could only
    handle dialup at half speed (26k) because they were (and still are)
    set up for Party Line use.

    Fortunately in recent years they have started putting only 2
    customers on a line, rather than 4. That still only gives us
    half speed, but there's now no picking up the phone to hear
    people talking and having to wait for them to clear the line.

    My internet now comes at 4G via my Cell Phone these days and
    the only other option is Satellite Dish..

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