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Netscape Navigator, Internet Explorer... those names just teem with romance, don't you think? What's the most popular browser now? "Google" "Chrome". A meaningless word and a boring metal. Implied is no more exploring, no more adventure. No wonder things are like they are!
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dc-blog 11 months ago

Nintendo DSi Web Browser tho-

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lhfm 11 months ago

At least Safari is still kicking around lol

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capstasher 11 months ago

We fork Firefox and make the Netland Adventurer browser. Cidoku and capstasher patent pending

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cidoku 11 months ago

"Netland Adventurer"? Lord Cap, you're a genius...

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capstasher 11 months ago

They don't just sell lordships online for any idiot to buy, Count Cidoku >: )

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bishoujo-ff 11 months ago

Opera is a nice name too.

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My mad quest towards ABSOLUTE backwards compatibility continues: old browsers that can't render PNGs are now served GIFs instead (in progress). Don't you worry, I'll write about this someday
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dc-blog 11 months ago

My compatibility intends to go as far as terminal browsers + the OG DS (altho the DSi/OG DS can already load my website if it werent for forced-HTTPS, I just will have to announce support whenever I can self-host bc the day I host myself is the day i dont require HTTPS anymore)

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cidoku 11 months ago

Oh, so that's why your site looks like that. Do you have a picture of how it renders on a DS?

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dc-blog 11 months ago

@dc-blog i dont believe I do sadly, tho if I can find one I will try to find it (my current layout is similar to the old one, just blue instead of gray, and the gray one i think i have an archive of somewhere on DS)

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My site now works in Internet Explorer 3 and Netscape 3 (except for PNGs). I'm absolutely insane
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misterdizzy 11 months ago

In case a confused time traveler surfs by

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cidoku 11 months ago

do you reckon time travelers from the past would bring their 486s with them?

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The heirs of the Cidoku fortune will wage eternal war to the heirs of the capstasher fortune for generations over Sealand claims. War has changed. It's no longer about nations, ideologies, or ethnicity. It's an endless series of sea battles, fought by Neocities mercenaries and vintage computers. War--and it's consumption of life--has become a well-oiled machine. War has changed.
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cidoku 11 months ago

War becomes routine...

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capstasher 11 months ago

Sadly, Count Cidoku, Lord capstasher is in fact that self centered. I plan to, later on in life, talk to heraldry experts and design my own coat of arms for my future family. I want to family lore that my sons shall carry down through the ages

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cidoku 11 months ago

Actually, that's an excellent reason to want your own coat of arms. I'm feeling just a bit self-centered now.

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capstasher 11 months ago

Craft a family lore* I'm sorry, i'm drunk

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capstasher 11 months ago

Or, as we say in Romanian "sunt muci" ("i'm snot" to translate it)

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cidoku 11 months ago

Also cheers for calling me Count, LOL

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My new flash movie is almost done but, damn, I'm useless at drawing backgrounds
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capstasher 12 months ago

They have to be vector drawings in flash?

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cidoku 12 months ago

They can be vectors or bitmaps, it doesn't matter. But Flash is a vector drawing program; bitmaps have to be imported, so I don't really use them too much

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Either way what I'm saying, Cidoku, is you should totally buy a title from Sealand. The reason I am Lord capstasher, is because someone I once knew bought me one of those fake Scottish lordships, and its amazing to have. Pull a Lord Miles and add it on your bank card
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cidoku 12 months ago

I will become Count Cidoku of Sealand someday, just you wait

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My history with Sealand goes back a long way! The summer of 2017 and the little documented 4chan Space Program (of which I think I am the only one to hold any remains of)
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cidoku 12 months ago

Tell me more...

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capstasher 12 months ago

Back in the old days, someone on the science board came up with the idea of making an amateur rocket group, with the name of "4chan Space Program"

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graybox 12 months ago

>"4chan Space Program" uhm.. WHAT?!

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capstasher 12 months ago

A few autists assembled together a Discord server for it, and the work started. I ran the propaganda department, making posters, and discussing plans with the other members.

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capstasher 12 months ago

Eventually, we reached the idea that we ought to start with a balloon, as research into amateur rocketship proved it to be an expensive endeavour

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capstasher 12 months ago

So okay, balloon it is. But we ought to make it in such a way we can earn money for the next stage of the program

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capstasher 12 months ago

So what would earn money? A sponsorship! How do we get a sponsorship? By livestreaming from onboard the balloon! But what could we stream other than the outside? Now that got us thinking

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capstasher 12 months ago

What would we put inside to make the stream engaging? It has to be something very 4chan specific.... A swastika? Nah, that would bar us from the sponsorship. (But wouldnt being a group of 4channers also block us from a sponsorship? Not necesarrily! Not if they didn't know >:] You see, 4CSP would, internally, stand for 4chan Space Program, but externally we would claim it to be 4 Corners Space Program)

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capstasher 12 months ago

(obviously, this would be to "represent just how diverse we are as a group, being from all the 4 corners of the world". Absolute bull)

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capstasher 12 months ago

Okay, so what do we put inside if not a swastika? Well, a frog of course! Lets make this /sci/entific >8 )

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capstasher 12 months ago

We shall track the vitals of the frog throughout the balloon flight! Lets say its a study of how altitude affects amphibians or something of the sort, we'll justify it post-hoc, it would just be cool to send a frog into space.

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flying-with-quills 12 months ago

@cap that's amazing

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capstasher 12 months ago

I was the opinion this would go catastrophically wrong (even made a poster to show it: https://capstasher.neocities.org/4csp-1.jpg ) but fuck it, it would be crazy if we could pull this off!

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capstasher 12 months ago

Okay, we got out plan. Some of our guys started designing models of the pressursed chamber to be taken up by the balloon ( https://capstasher.neocities.org/4csp-2.png https://capstasher.neocities.org/4csp-3.png https://capstasher.neocities.org/4csp-4.PNG )

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capstasher 12 months ago

Engineering department was hard at work! Meanwhile, our outreach team started brainstorming a very important question: Where do we even launch this from? Why, Sealand of course! So our outreach leader reaches out to Prince Regent Michael Bates. And we heard back! Sadly the last email in the chain i have is what our response was to their response: https://capstasher.neocities.org/4csp-5.jpg

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capstasher 12 months ago

Sadly, Sealand never replied after that. That was the end of our only location possibility. And slowly, as the amazing Sealand plan died, interest slowly started dying too. We had a mascot! By my own design as well! Her name was Stella (no relation to the beer). She was featured on the very first 4CSP poster! And do please keep in mind, I was like 15 when i made this in Picsart on my ANTIQUE Android

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cidoku 12 months ago

So Prince Michael agreed? LMAO. Not a lot of people even can go to Sealand; you guys journeying there when you aren't "influencers" or with the news would have been such a story to tell. I don't have such lofty ambitions as you had, but adventure calls you know.

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capstasher 12 months ago

And I liked the concept behind this poster so much, that i re-did it in 2022! https://capstasher.neocities.org/4csp-7.png Here it is on it's own, and here's the side by side progression: https://capstasher.neocities.org/4csp-8.png

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capstasher 12 months ago

There's other bits and bobs leftover from this, but this is about as much of the story itself that I recall. It was 7 years ago. I might make a page to document this all. End of tale for now, dear friends

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cidoku 12 months ago

Yes, definitely do document it, please. For the fun of it.

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capstasher 12 months ago

Some last things left are: I actually got the specific patch Stella has on the 2022 poster, specifically to sew it on a blue hoodie. Her t-shirt is supposed to be a parody of Atari, called Atree, with the kanji for tree above it, as it was similar to the Atari logo

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keltokel 12 months ago

I really enjoyed eavesdropping on this thread.

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graybox 12 months ago

golly goodness, that's amazing.

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My site is now 50% more compatible with Netscape 4. Time travelers, beware
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dc-blog 12 months ago

As of now, my personal website works almost perfectly with or without the CSS. As for Venith, it's even better as it truly works without CSS in any capacity (and on the homepage, it uses well-crafted tables so it's not even bunched up together despite no CSS).

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satyrwoud 12 months ago

My website is an elaborate trap to destroy time travellers’ computers with CSS features so new that my own daily driver doesn’t support them yet. This is not a place of honour.

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cidoku 12 months ago

@satyrwoud If your site hasn't seen any time travelers lately then maybe your deviousness is working

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