[Closed] AltaVista not working with Netscape Navigator

Is anyone else using the phone line at the same time?

By 'eck, that's a blast from the past.

Send your email with Thunderbird, that's still going strong.

I was checking the Newsgroups about this yesterday.

Maybe try asking Jeeves for the answer.

I'd send you a screenshot of the problem, but I don't know what one is yet.

Works on my Psion.

I've put some notes on Geocities

Take the little ball out of your mouse and blow the fluff off it.

You need to free up more conventional memory by loading your mouse driver into the UMB in config.sys.

You need at least 583 KB to send an email.

I've no idea what you lot are all blathering on about. It's all fine here running Mosaic on Windows for Workgroups so long as you install the TCP/IP stack from tcp32b.exe first. I've got it on floppy if anyone needs a copy just let me know and I'll stick a a copy in the post.

... of course, that's all a bit new-fangled.

To get to remote systems I'd need to use PAD to traverse JANET from the PR1ME minicomputer at uk.ac.lancsp.p1, after first illicitly installing NETLINK. I've got details of a few potential destinations on a dot matrix printout that one of the guys in the year above gave me. If any of them work I might hide them on Barry's Wall. The BBS at 000041002300 looks like it might be promising.

I’d forgotten that JANET used a naming system that was THE RIGHT WAY AROUND!

Indeed. But it goes a bit "American date format" as soon as you look at email addresses. In an ideal big-endian world the whole thing should be probably be reversed, eg com.gmail@smith.dave (but then "at" makes little grammatical sense).

Dogs and cats, living together.

18/F/UK wanna cyber?

Sure, what's your ICQ UIN?

If it's something important, I find it better to just put it on a floppy and courier it over so you know it's going to get there.

Ack never mind, sit back chill and download a song from napster, should only take about 45 minutes,

Our usernames were surname.firstname

Still didn’t work for email addresses, did for other things.

I had surname.initial at college, surname_initials at uni.

Primary communication was essentially a form of instant message though, you could send 80-character messages to terminals or users on the same system. At college we got told off for sharking messaging randoms cos it popped up in the middle of their CAD drawings and they couldn't remove it. Like, that's our fault.

I don't remember actually having email back then.

download a song from napster

Great idea. Got any Metallica?

Primary communication was essentially a form of instant message though, you could send 80-character messages to terminals or users on the same system.

Vague recollection of changing your display name to effect a message.

I don’t remember actually having email back then.

I wrote an email client to escape the terminal.

Vague recollection of changing your display name to effect a message.

"Display names"? Luxury!

I've a vague memory of crufting fake messages (emails maybe?) by changing the "message from..." text to read "massage from..." but I cannot for the life of me remember context now.

Oh, actually, this is the best thing ever and I've never shared it with anyone before. It'll change your life. There was this one time wh

*** X25 RESET

PEEK & POKE

10 Print "Cougar is a smart arse";
20 Goto 10

Run

Cougar is a smart arse Cougar is a smart arse Cougar is a smart arse Cougar is a smart arse Cougar is a smart arse Cougar is a smart arse Cougar is a smart arse Cougar is a smart arse Cougar is a smart arse Cougar is a smart arse Cougar is a smart arse Cougar is a smart arse Cougar is a smart arse Cougar is a smart arse Cougar is a smart arse Cougar is a smart arse Cougar is a smart arse Cougar is a smart arse Cougar is a smart arse Cougar is a smart arse Cougar is a smart arse Cougar is a smart arse Cougar is a smart arse Cougar is a smart arse Cougar is a smart arse Cougar is a smart arse Cougar is a smart arse Cougar is a smart arse....etc

I have absolutely no idea about usernames at uni, but our email addresses were made up of 6/7 characters before the @ which identified the subject you studied, the year you were in and you (initials). I often wonder how long they spent coming up with the system and how long it persisted for.

Works on my Psion.

Chapeau

I have absolutely no idea about usernames at uni, but our email addresses were made up of 6/7 characters before the @ which identified the subject you studied, the year you were in and you (initials). I often wonder how long they spent coming up with the system and how long it persisted for.

eca96smm@sheffield.co.uk 🙂

probably using frames

Are you using Windows? Try GEM - I think it's way better and will dominate the market for sure.

OP is not joking, that's about how up to date his IT skills are 🙂

Accidentally set my screen resolution to 1024 x 768 and it all went blank. Luckily found this to get up and running again, it only took 3 hours.

At school in about 1990 they installed a 'computer lab' which was full of 8-bit BBC machines - not the original Micro but some later model. They attempted to teach us word processing and the like, on this non-WYSIWYG software I can't remember what it was called. Somehow I figured out how to send messages to someone else's terminal (no idea how, there was no Google) but bizarrely the text you sent got inserted into their terminal as if they'd typed it. Talk about insecure.. so we'd watch people hunt-and-peck typing and we'd try to send the message when they were looking down at the keyboard in the hope that they wouldn't notice the obscenity, keep typing and hand the work in like that. Almost got away with it a couple of times 🙂

No Network Found.
A problem has been detected windows is shutting down to prevent damage to your health.

That ain't a bag it's a shipment
This ain't a track, it's a movement, I got the settlement
My frequencies are transient and resonate your eardrums
I make bangers not anthems, leave that to the Artful Dodger
The broad shouldered fifty-one percent shareholder
You won't find us on Alta Vista

I'm not sure this whole search engine thing is going to take off. I'm sticking with a menu and list model for the internet.

http://dmoztools.net/ (previously at dmoz.org)

I’m not sure this whole search engine thing is going to take off.

I wrote an essay in my first year comparing and contrasting the effectiveness of Alta Vista's search engine approach with Yahoo's directory model. The nineties, eh?

eca96smm@sheffield.co.uk

Ooh, numbers, our years had a letter assigned - y in my case, x was year above, z year below

plyseg
P = faculty of science
L = life sciences
Y = 1998
S = can't remember
EG = initials

As a teenager we had an Amiga 4000, it was a bit temperamental and sometimes you had to physically get hold of the hard drive and gently rotate it to get it to start spinning, but it meant the concept of closing things down completely passed me by - I like multi tasking

Cougar
Subscriber
download a song from napster

Great idea. Got any Metallica?

Not really sure, why don't you look for yourself, I'm on limewire too, so the entire contents of my computer should be in the public domain. 😆

Not sure I even had an email at university.
Started 1st year, they'd just had a computer room installed with about a dozen Commodore PETs.

10 Print “Cougar is a smart arse”;
20 Goto 10

Run

Cougar is a smart arse Cougar is a smart arse Cougar is a smart arse Cougar is a smart arse

There's a bug in your code. That would print:

Cougar is a smart arseCougar is a smart arseCougar is a smart arseCougar is a smart arse

etc.

Smart arse 😉

I don’t remember actually having email back then.

We had webmail for university; cunningly the IT faculty had a completely different system accessed via Eudora, which only became a problem when I did the optional IT module.

not the original Micro but some later model.

Master?

They attempted to teach us word processing and the like, on this non-WYSIWYG software I can’t remember what it was called.

Probably Wordwise. You had embedded commands (not unlike the BBcode here really), displayed in green IIRC.

Somehow I figured out how to send messages to someone else’s terminal (no idea how, there was no Google) but bizarrely the text you sent got inserted into their terminal as if they’d typed it. Talk about insecure.

Ah, Econet.

*NOTIFY MOLGRIPS THIS IS HOW YOU SEND MESSAGES

With *REMOTE MOLGRIPS you could actually take over other users' stations. Our lecturer used to play a flight "sim" game, we took great delight in silently REMOTEing his Beeb and crashing the plane into the ground.

I once wrote a short program to *REMOTE every Beeb in the room instructing them to load and play the theme tune to Captain Pugwash. Cue 20-30 BBCs all firing into life belting out the Trumpet Hornpipe through their (rather loud) internal speaker, all slightly out of step with each other. I almost gave myself away from laughing but fortunately the rest of the class was in stitches too.

You could disable it on your own machine with *PROT, mad that this wasn't the default.

Of course, the fun really started with *I AM BOOT (default password of "TOOB"). Just don't be editing the password file when someone logs in or it'll bork the entire system. Erm, I imagine.

Master?

They said WYSIWG, so probably meant Archimedes [the very first ones in schools were BBC branded] [we know it was 32bit ahead of its time, but thinking something that old was 8bit is an understandable misunderstanding].

Edit: They said non-WYSWIG. I’m sure when I read it before it didn’t say that. So ignore the above.

Master?

Yes, that was it!

Ah, Econet.

That too. I do not remember that level of detail. I wish I could remember how I found all that stuff at the time.

Most nostalgic reference for me is Cougars' winsock TCP/IP stack floppies. That's when I started getting paid to make computers do things (as opposed to netware commands for finding jpgs on the Uni server network) and that was so fundamental to getting anything working.

Then along came Shockwave and Homestar Runner and Strongbad were born and web-based entertainment was more inclusive than just for 'gentlemen'.

https://homestarrunner.com/

Also available on Youtube, but no easter eggs or clicky bits.

There’s a bug in your code.

The semicolon wouldn't have helped, either. BASIC used a new line as a terminator. Pretty sure PRINT inserted a newline free of charge, too.

Our physics department at secondary school (early/mid-nineties) had a wave simulation programme on a BBC Micro. A previous teacher had programmed it and no-one else could write code so this one computer got wheeled around the various physics labs with the one technician who was able to turn it on, load and run the programme. If she happened to be off that day, the wave simulation programme couldn't run!

The computer lab though - that was top of the range:

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