Re:LT6502: A 6502-based homebrew laptop
by galangalalgol on Sunday February 15, 2026 @07:53PM
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Heavy webpages are the main barrier for projects like this. We need something that is just reader view for everything without the overhead of also being able to do non reader view. Like w3m or lynx but with sane formatting, word wrap etc.
Re:LT6502: A 6502-based homebrew laptop
by rainingmonkey on Monday February 16, 2026 @10:35AM
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You might be interested in the Gemini protocol: https://geminiprotocol.net/
Re:LT6502: A 6502-based homebrew laptop
by galangalalgol on Monday February 16, 2026 @10:43AM
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I am interested, thank you! I still think there is room to make a text browser that allows as many webpages as possible to be usable without requiring MB of ram per page. You can do things piping curl through pandoc but that isn't terribly useful.
Re:LT6502: A 6502-based homebrew laptop
by kevin_thibedeau on Sunday February 15, 2026 @05:08PM
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> graphics that were wanting
Prodigy established a (limited) graphical online service in 1988.
Re:LT6502: A 6502-based homebrew laptop
by antidamage on Sunday February 15, 2026 @06:17PM
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I'm imagining that this is the work of the Boy Genuis
My Vic20 could do this, and a C64 easily, really it was just graphics that were wanting.
I was sending electronic messages around the world via FidoNet and PunterNet, downloaded software, was on forums, and that all on BBSes.
When I think of the web of old, it's the actual information I love.
And a terminal connected to a bbs could be thought of as a text browser, really.
I even connectd to CompuServe in the early 80s via my C64 through "datapac", a dial gateway via telnet.
ANSI was a standard too, it could have evolved further.