A Web server for very old browsers
Created and Maintained by The Dust Council
Last Update: 2018-Apr-19
This server is configured to work with old or obscure web browsers.
To that end, the HTML may be a bit spotty when it comes to standards, although
it closely tracks HTML 2.0.
What you can do here:
- TELNET
- Telnet to blizzardofzeros.com to change the auto-message displayed below. It will stick until someone else changes it again.
- GOPHER
- Use a gopher client or plugin to explore gopherspace at: gopher://blizzardofzeros.com
- FINGER
- Use a finger client to finger: dustcouncil@blizzardofzeros.com
- FTP
- Explore our FTP server at blizzardofzeros.com
- VIEW VERY OLD IMAGES
- Explore our image gallery consisting of very old graphics, mostly GIF87a format, which should work in the oldest browsers.
- CONNECT OLD SYSTEMS AND EMULATORS TO THE INTERNET
- Check out a list of emulation recipes, mainly focused on telnetting with old 8 bit systems and emulators
- SCREENSHOTS OF OLD OPERATING SYSTEMS
- A list of browsers tested with this website along with screenshots.
- INFORMATION ABOUT THIS SERVER
- See more information about this server's configuration
- INFORMATION ABOUT YOU
- See your information. (User agent, IP address, etc.)
- CONTACT ME
- Contact information if you need it.
The last message entered on the telnet port was:
Date: Fri Jun 15 01:31:48 UTC 2018
If the sun refused to shine...I don't mind.
Server Information:
- Server Time:
- 2018-Sep-25 (Tue) @ 00:00:39 UTC
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- Server Location:
- San Francisco, CA: United States [US]
- Server Configuration:
- Apache - DigitalOcean Droplet
Your Information:
- HTTP Protocol:
- HTTP/1.1
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- Referrer:
- None or Unknown
- Your Browser:
- CCBot/2.0 (https://commoncrawl.org/faq/)
- Your Request URI:
- /
- Your ISP / Organization:
- AS14618 Amazon.com, Inc.
- Your City:
- Ashburn
- State / Province / Region:
- VA
- Country:
- United States [US]
The following have been verified working with this site:
- OS/2 Warp 4:
- IBM WebExplorer v1.2 (1994) (Screenshot)
- MS-DOS:
- Minuet 1.0beta10 (1994) (Screenshot)
- MS-DOS:
- Arachne 1.97 (2013) (Screenshot)
- Windows 3.11:
- Netscape v3.0 Gold (1996) (Screenshot)
- Windows 3.11:
- NCSA Mosaic 2.1.1 (1996) (Screenshot)
- Windows 3.11:
- Opera 3.62 (2000) (Screenshot)
- Windows 3.11:
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 (1999) (Screenshot)
- Apple //e:
- Contiki OS 3.0 (2016) (Screenshot)
Contact information:
See also: frostwarning.com