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From http://occ.deadnet.se/

The Old Computer Challenge was conceived by Solene Rapenne in 2021,
inviting people from all walks of life to experience a single week in
July with an old machine. The aim of that challenge was to both
highlight and downplay the importance of modern hardware and the recent
world of popular technology.

Also:

gopher://occ.deadnet.se
gemini://occ.deadnet.se

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From http://occ.deadnet.se/

The Old Computer Challenge was conceived by Solene Rapenne in 2021,
inviting people from all walks of life to experience a single week in
July with an old machine. The aim of that challenge was to both
highlight and downplay the importance of modern hardware and the recent
world of popular technology.

Also:

gopher://occ.deadnet.se
gemini://occ.deadnet.se

Thank you! thanks for sharing, looks super interesting.


Happy Hacking
ReK2
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On 16/07/2025 08:12, anthk wrote:

From http://occ.deadnet.se/

The Old Computer Challenge was conceived by Solene Rapenne in 2021,
inviting people from all walks of life to experience a single week in
July with an old machine. The aim of that challenge was to both
highlight and downplay the importance of modern hardware and the recent
world of popular technology.

Also:

gopher://occ.deadnet.se
gemini://occ.deadnet.se

This seems really cool! The challenge is made even easier from the fact
people port stuff like Discord to Windows 9x!

Too bad it already started. I'd have loved to take this on... :|
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Cobra! <Cobradabest@aol.com> wrote:

On 16/07/2025 08:12, anthk wrote:

From http://occ.deadnet.se/

The Old Computer Challenge was conceived by Solene Rapenne in 2021,
inviting people from all walks of life to experience a single week in
July with an old machine. The aim of that challenge was to both
highlight and downplay the importance of modern hardware and the recent
world of popular technology.

Also:

gopher://occ.deadnet.se
gemini://occ.deadnet.se

This seems really cool! The challenge is made even easier from the fact people port stuff like Discord to Windows 9x!

Too bad it already started. I'd have loved to take this on... :|

If you have the time, just start :) Last year someone
started a bit after it finished and his posts were well
received.
--
[t]csh(1) - "An elegant shell, for a more... civilized age."
- Paraphrasing Star Wars
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On 16-Jul-25 8:45 PM, Cobra! wrote:

This seems really cool! The challenge is made even easier from the fact people port stuff like Discord to Windows 9x!

Well, I was always big fan of Discord and Onlyfans. But everything
changed the day I discovered that our captain, lord and guru left our
sinking ship the first.

Next day I immediately deleted my Onlyfans account, left Discord and
even closed my Protonmail business account.

It hit me hard, I am still recovering and this year I am thinking to completely change my identity and gender. Will see how next election
will end.

The next week I migrated my OpenBSD machine to Windows 11 and now after
time? What a refreshing to live as respectable citizen again.
My neighbors started greeting me again. I am able to open PDF from mom's
USB stick. My life is much better.
Still fat, ugly and dumb, but working on it.

I pay my taxes, have regular job, I vote for my favorite liberal party.
I even considering to getting some cat. I have that cool app in my
iPhone 16 Pro Max to edit photos.

Next year I will join this old idiot challenge again.
Already preparing my Azure cluster of virtual machines. It's better to
be ready than sorry ye?

Too bad it already started. I'd have loved to take this on... :|

Ye, feel your pain. UNIX is 56 year old, it's older than me already.
But life has to continue and we have to move on.

Our premium members at none.rip has access to news before they even
happen. So they are never late to the party.

This year every member finished this magnificent challenge before the
world even knew about the challenge.

PS: Please decrypt your gemini capsules. I can't read shit. And I really
want. All our premium members have the highest security clearance. We
can read your secret plain text files. We need just
your secret key.

PS2: I love you all. You are big inspiration for me.

none
none.rip 1900

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On 2025-07-18, none <none@none.none> wrote:

On 16-Jul-25 8:45 PM, Cobra! wrote:

This seems really cool! The challenge is made even easier from the fact
people port stuff like Discord to Windows 9x!

Well, I was always big fan of Discord and Onlyfans. But everything
changed the day I discovered that our captain, lord and guru left our sinking ship the first.

Next day I immediately deleted my Onlyfans account, left Discord and
even closed my Protonmail business account.

It hit me hard, I am still recovering and this year I am thinking to completely change my identity and gender. Will see how next election
will end.

The next week I migrated my OpenBSD machine to Windows 11 and now after time? What a refreshing to live as respectable citizen again.
My neighbors started greeting me again. I am able to open PDF from mom's
USB stick. My life is much better.
Still fat, ugly and dumb, but working on it.

I pay my taxes, have regular job, I vote for my favorite liberal party.
I even considering to getting some cat. I have that cool app in my
iPhone 16 Pro Max to edit photos.

Next year I will join this old idiot challenge again.
Already preparing my Azure cluster of virtual machines. It's better to
be ready than sorry ye?

Too bad it already started. I'd have loved to take this on... :|

Ye, feel your pain. UNIX is 56 year old, it's older than me already.
But life has to continue and we have to move on.

Our premium members at none.rip has access to news before they even
happen. So they are never late to the party.

This year every member finished this magnificent challenge before the
world even knew about the challenge.

PS: Please decrypt your gemini capsules. I can't read shit. And I really want. All our premium members have the highest security clearance. We
can read your secret plain text files. We need just
your secret key.

PS2: I love you all. You are big inspiration for me.

none
none.rip 1900

I have none, (I own a gopher one in Spanish), but gemini://gemi.dev
with News Waffle and some other services have been extremely
useful in the OCC to read some local news from a newspaper to
reduce the bw load down to 5% and even worked as anti-paywall too.

Eww was fine under Emacs but elpher ran faster and it was
non-blocking. I might try to run eww asynchronously
one day.

Outside of the OCC I just use RSS's but I don't like the handing of
feeds under GNUs. There's GWENE and GMANE but I prefer sfeed
under Unix and plain mail lists, they run much faster.

On Unix being older, FM and AM radio it's even older, and in
case of a blackout in Spain it was the only working medium
which worked half realibily. Gemini worked with a few seconds
delay and so did IRC, but I wanted to save battery.

This is not a hipster challenge, neither my OpenBSD setup.
It's my daily driver; I just switched from cwm+xterm+tmux
to fvwm and Emacs.
By avoiding mice my starting-RSI dissapearad. Try that with
9front. Yes, I tried it, I ran riow, even sam in ed mode.

And, yet, cwm has been superior with full keybindings
to open, resize, close and move windows and switch
between vt's.
Technologically it might be better, but treason(1) needs
to be polished in order to be able to scale video, at least
with a simple integer based one.
Also, I see 9front/plan9 as an evolution from Unix v10
and the blit, wanted to be almost fully mouse based,
while Acme it's an Oberon UI clone.
IMHO, that's an error; the interface should had allowed
both interfaces, a la Emacs, while keeping the underlying
technologies such as the 'everything it's a file' taken
to the extreme.

Even XTerm has some minimal mouse support, so do some
text editors for the terminal, both under X and under GPM.
9front should try to implement some input transversality.



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