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Visiting "modern" webpages in 2026 (lemmy.nz)
submitted 1 month ago by SatyrSack@quokk.au to c/chevron7@lemmy.world
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Stargate SG-1 S4E3 "Upgrades"

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[-] kbal@fedia.io 30 points 1 month ago

Procedure for looking at a typical trendy-tech ad-infested web page, 2026:

  • Go to the url in librewolf
  • Try enabling javascript
  • Try allowing web workers
  • Maybe it really needs "canvas"?
  • Check javascript console for clues
  • Perhaps messing with uBlock settings will help
  • Try it in old Firefox profile
  • Get blocked by cloudflare, curse their name
  • Load it up in Tor Browser
  • If it still doesn't work, give up and pick a better web page.

The web never would have become popular if it had started out being like this.

[-] radix@lemmy.world 39 points 1 month ago

Quicker version:

  • Go to the url in librewolf

  • If it doesn't work, give up and pick a better web page.

[-] SatyrSack@quokk.au 12 points 1 month ago

If a website is not working in Librewolf, it is definitely not going to work in Tor, right? Unless it's an onion address, which is usually very obvious at first glance.

[-] kbal@fedia.io 5 points 1 month ago

Thing is my primary librewolf profile has all kinds of privacy and security settings and extensions. Noscript, jshelter, and so on. It's just a matter of deciding how much it's worth messing with them for any site that doesn't like it.

There are lots of sites that don't work unless you turn on javascript and let them fingerprint your browser or whatever, but there are also quite a few that work better without it — enough of them to make me leave it as the default.

[-] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

you would be surprised. for instance cloudflare is easier there

[-] LodeMike@lemmy.today 4 points 1 month ago

The way that website creators just make nonfunctional websites is plain obscene.

[-] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

One of the earliest episodes of SG-1 has Daniel using Netscape Navigator 3.0 to access the internet. Fun times.

[-] SatyrSack@quokk.au 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I couldn't find Beck's Ancient Phoenician Symbology on CD at Archaeology.com

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.html

[-] ElBarto@piefed.social 4 points 1 month ago

90s Internet was mostly dialup. 640MB of information took six or more hours to download.

[-] evidences@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

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

[-] llii@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Same, I ordered a Ubuntu CD and others (Redhat or Debian(?)) on CDs, because we only had 64 kbit/s ISDN.

[-] fonix232@fedia.io 3 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 1 month ago

dint they use the computers to research on seth, set-tesh too.

[-] knobbysideup@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago

We need to go back to gopher and Usenet.

[-] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 2 points 1 month ago

plain text Usenet.

[-] decended_being@midwest.social 3 points 1 month ago

I loved this episode. Sam typing ultra fast and waiting for "the buffer" to catch up certainly stuck with me.

[-] FreddiesLantern@leminal.space 3 points 1 month ago

That webpage ain't worth it anyway. Fuck em.

[-] _NetNomad@fedia.io 2 points 1 month ago

you ever been chased by jaffa and manage to dial the gate in the nick of time but they still manage to kill you because Anubis took too long deciding whether or not you're a bot

[-] atro_city@fedia.io 1 points 1 month ago

Couldn't have opened a single one with Chrome :)

[-] abbadon420@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

Oh... the 90's... how nostalgic... wait... this is 2026?!....

this post was submitted on 10 Aug 2026
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