I am also starting to dabble in the various aspects of the Fediverse, having an interesting time. “Neon Modem Overdrive”! Somewhere, William Gibson is smiling…

The memory in the two Voyager spacecraft - still in operation more than 45 years after launch, now more than 4 times farther from our Sun than Pluto’s mean orbit - is core. Poke around in https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov

All the junk heaped onto the WWW table has made it bloated, requiring multiprocessing just to run it quickly enough for impatient humans. I still have a version or two of Phoenix (along w. versions of Netscape) on my SPARCstation 20…

2400 baud modem in an Altima 286 luggable (CGA LCD monochrome screen) in 1990. Hello CompuServe! And dialing into the Sun SPARCservers at work (oh yeah, remote working, 1993). Then used a USR 56k modem with a Sun SPARCstation 20 to connect to my ISP. The SS20 served as the firewall/router/DHCP server for my home LAN, which quickly grew to include NeXT, Sun and SGI workstations as companies cast them off to save money with the advent of the Intel/MS hegemony. That setup is still down in the computing cave, should the fiber-optic-cable-eating viruses grown in some corporate arcology ever be unleashed and we are back to copper POTS again…

You can add Cameron Kaiser’s Overbite extension to Firefox to use his Gopher<–>Http proxy, or the NX version to do it natively - see http://gopher.floodgap.com/overbite/ Long live Port 70 !!