(4/58) TTY/SLIP/PPP: Bobcat, Arachne, Minuet & other MS-DOS browsers from a dead website
Channel: Alone in the Kitchen — by Nino Ivanov
Date: 2024-04-05

On FDISK.COM, in the 1990s, a collection of many a #web #browser for MS-DOS was available, through which #DOS machines of the time could venture where no MS-DOS computer had gone before… that is, as long as the browser and the webpage fit within 640kb of RAM, or there would be often a crash. Then again, who had the money and patience to load such a giant website? So experience an internet of mostly text, with http only websites (no https) with browsers from FDISK.COM that can still be acquired via the Internet #Wayback Machine, web.archive.org - such as the Minuet browser (the first web browser of broad acceptance after the Line Mode Browser that could not input text into forms, which Minuet can, and Minuet also offers Telnet and Gopher support), Arachne (against which I clearly advise) and Bobcat (a DOS variety of famous LYNX, an excellent DOS browser), whereby is to be used thoroughly in the coming videos in the TTY/SLIP/PPP series!