This Floppy Disk is a WEB SERVER

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• KA

  @karolstopinski8350 · 7 months ago

  Meanwhile in alternate reality someone is installing 5GBs worth of .NET framework to be able to write 'Hello world'

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• GR

  @GreenRecon · 7 months ago

  Sean posts his floppy to the Internet, immediately discovers performance issues

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• CD

  @CD3WD-Project · 7 months ago

  4 kilobytes took us to the Moon now we're lucky if we can open up an Excel sheet with 8 gigs of RAM. Oh how things have changed

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• JE

  @JeffGeerling · 7 months ago

  Needs a RamDisk to give it more speeeeed! Thanks for making sure it was archived on wayback machine so I can see it even while your home connection gets smashed by floppy traffic!

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• CO

  @cocus-ar · 7 months ago

  I contributed to ELKS while trying to make it work on a HDSL modem that had an 80c188eb. I ended up making a SBC with the same components. Excellent project and a lot of support from the developers there, specially Greg! (at least I'm in the contributors list you showed, I'm the last one there!)

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• JO

  @johnstapleton192 · 7 months ago

  have you ever seen/used the original demo of QNX operating system?  An entire GRAPHICAL system with apps and internet and even a game that all fit on one  bootable 1.44MB floppy!

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• RE

  @retropuffer2986 · 7 months ago

  Retro Action: Asking the questions we never thought to ask.

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• SI

  @SilverBullet93GT · 1 month ago

  &quot; anything is a web server if you try hard enough ...&quot;<br>some Greek philosopher

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• MO

  @monidmonk · 7 months ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efglR_2Hy4Y&amp;t=928">15:28</a> I thought he was going to say 800$ in 32 GB of DDR3 RAM

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• JA

  @jaythecoderx4623 · 7 months ago

  Appreciate the censorship of the thermal paste. Very necessary.<br><br>Next, we need to run a full social media network off of a single floppy

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• GI

  @GilWanderley · 7 months ago

  Ah, the 80&apos;s and 90&apos;s, when programmers just squeezed every bit of performance they could out of a machine, unlike nowadays where the companies just say &quot;sorry, you need a machine made last week to run this, or you can rent one from us&quot;.

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• TO

  @toddverbeek5113 · 7 months ago (edited)

  Coyote Linux – the floppy-based firewall/router – included a simple web admin interface. It loaded itself into a RAM disk, so it didn’t need to access the floppy all the time.

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