Post #2075002
2026-05-05 21:04 UTC
@MartinEscardo
I remember when you could still install the old NCSA Mosaic binary on some newer hardware, which I think isn't possible anymore with chip changes. Anyway, a coworker challenged me to try it and I was like sure.
I cannot begin to describe how fast it was. Eyeblink fast. Screamingly fast. Comically fast -- I literally guffawed when it loaded one page. Like the whole webpage was a JPG it just loaded from disk. And of course a bunch of stuff didn't work, but most of it was crap I didn't want anyway.
Replies (2)
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@isaackuo@spacey.space 2026-05-05 21:14
@MichaelTBacon @MartinEscardo You know what drives me nuts? Volume control. Once upon a time, you could change volume INSTANTLY. It was just a cheap potentiometer. If something was TOO LOUD, you could turn the pot and THAT PROBLEM was solved just like that. But on a modern laptop? Or "smart" phone? Or almost anything? Yeah, good luck turning down the volume in a humanly reasonable amount of time. The CPU can do like millions of things per second, but not one of them is turning down the volume
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@rl_dane@polymaths.social 2026-05-05 22:17
@MichaelTBacon @MartinEscardo You should try the @dillo browser sometime. It's a nice refuge from... all this nonsense. 😄