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Visiting "modern" webpages in 2026
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Stargate SG-1 S4E3 "Upgrades"
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One of the earliest episodes of SG-1 has Daniel using Netscape Navigator 3.0 to access the internet. Fun times.
Talking about ordering a disc of information off the Internet instead of straight downloading that information. '90s as hell.
And sort of related to web browsers, Carter did research on Hathor, but if you look closely, the URL for the web page is actually a local HTML file.
file///c:/http/www/ancient/eternal/hathor.html90s Internet was mostly dialup. 640MB of information took six or more hours to download.
Even early broadband could be hit or miss. I ordered disks directly from Ubuntu because I wasn't confident in my Internets ability to download an entire disk iso in the early '00s.
I downloaded a 100mb video podcast in like '03 on a broadband connection and it took me at least a day
Same, I ordered a Ubuntu CD and others (Redhat or Debian(?)) on CDs, because we only had 64 kbit/s ISDN.
It actually makes sense. You wouldn't expose the most secret military base to the internet directly. The SGC systems must have been airgapped, especially in the early years.
How do you research then? You put in a request, a secure, internet connected terminal is used to grab that data, copied to hard storage, scanned for malicious code, then transferred to the SGC computers.
Pre-Web2.0 this wasn't an issue as sites simply returned static data. There were even projects that offered to crawl an entire website and save every page, every linked path, for offline browsing.
dint they use the computers to research on seth, set-tesh too.