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@[email protected] ich würde ruhig auch #hoerbuecher #hoerbuch #buecher #buechersonntag #hoerspiel #hoerspieltipps #hörbuch #hörbücher als Anfang bei Dir einfügen. Und hier noch ein Link mit Adressen allerdings vorzugsweise auf Englisch. https://fedi.directory/?s=books
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#retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #search #searchengine #frogfind #netscape #gold #apple #macintosh #mac #navigator
Catch of the Day: All that glitters is Netscape Gold! ✨
Hey Retro Fans!
While many of us struggle with gigabyte-heavy browsers today, our bouncer welcomed true web royalty last night at 2:30 AM:Netscape Navigator 3.01Gold on a Mac!
Who remembers the "Gold" edition? Back in 1996, this was the absolute premium standard. Netscape 3.0 Gold didn't just bring improved JavaScript support and LiveAudio; it was the first to feature an integrated WYSIWYG HTML editor ("Netscape Composer"). You could view websites and build them in basically the same window—a dream come true for 90s webmasters!
The fact that this roughly 30-year-old browser is still exploring the web from a classic Mac today and using our search engine is simply wonderful, and exactly the reason FrogFind exists.
Stay retro and surf in gold!
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#retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #search #searchengine #frogfind #bang #update
🐸 FrogFind Update: Save Quota, Surf Faster – Introducing "Bang" Commands! ⚡
Hello Retro Fans!If you’ve ever tried typing a long search query on a clunky 30-year-old mechanical keyboard, you know it can be a bit of a workout. But typing isn't the only thing we want to optimize. Behind the scenes, FrogFind relies on modern search APIs (like Google and Brave) to fetch your results before stripping them down for your vintage browsers. These APIs come with strict daily limits (quotas).
Every time someone searches for "Macintosh Garden Classilla" or "Aminet Directory Opus", it eats into our daily search quota. But what if there was a way to skip the middleman, save our precious API calls, and get you to your favorite retro sites even faster?
Enter Bang Commands (inspired by DuckDuckGo)!
How it works & The "Why"
Starting today, you can use shortcuts directly in the FrogFind search bar. If you type a bang (like !mg) followed by your search term, FrogFind completely bypasses the Google/Brave search engines. Zero API quota is used!Instead, FrogFind takes your query, securely contacts the target archive directly, and feeds the results straight into our read.php text-parser. You get the exact same lightweight, retro-friendly HTML output, but much faster and without draining the daily search limits.
We tested dozens of sites, but the modern web is heavily guarded by Cloudflare and JavaScript walls. We aggressively removed any site that threw a 404 error or a captcha to keep your experience 100% frustration-free.
Here are the "Glorious Five" fully supported Bang Commands that survived the gauntlet:
💾 Software & System Archives
!mg (Macintosh Garden)
Example: !mg Classilla
Searches the ultimate library for classic Mac OS software and routes the results through our text filter.!am (Aminet)
Example: !am Protracker
Direct access to the world's largest Amiga software archive.📚 Retro Knowledge & Wikis
!w (Wikipedia English) / !wde (Wikipedia German)
Example: !w Commodore 64
Bypasses search engines and pulls the Wikipedia article straight into FrogFind’s highly compatible reader.🌐 Native Retro Search Engines
!wiby (Wiby.me)
Example: !wiby Web Design
Searches Wiby, a search engine specifically dedicated to the classic, CSS-free Web 1.0. A match made in heaven!🕹️ Demoscene
!pouet (Pouët)
Example: !pouet Second Reality
Search the central hub of the demoscene directly from your vintage rig.Give it a try!
Just type your bang command directly into the FrogFind search bar on your old machine. It’s a massive time-saver and helps keep the FrogFind servers running smoothly for everyone. We will add a small "Cheat Sheet" link to the homepage soon so you won't have to memorize them all.Happy surfing!
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#retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #search #searchengine #frogfind #planetweb #sega #dreamcast
Catch of the Day: The "Planetweb" of Early Consoles! 🪐🎮
Hey Retro Fans!
Hold onto your controllers, because our FrogFind radar has caught an absolute exotic gem from the golden era of video game consoles today:Planetweb 2.613 on the Sega Dreamcast!
For those who didn't sit in front of their TV with a dial-up modem in the late 90s: Long before the PlayStation 4 or Xbox One had their own complex web browsers, Sega revolutionized couch surfing with the Dreamcast. In the US (and parts of Europe), the console often came bundled with a disc containing the Planetweb Browser.
This software was a minor miracle: It fit into the console's tiny RAM, managed the clunky 33.6k (or 56k) modem, and allowed players to read emails, search for cheat codes, or chat on SegaNet—all comfortably from the couch using a controller on a CRT television.
The fact that today, in 2026, someone gets a working Dreamcast online (likely using a Raspberry Pi as a modem emulator, affectionately known as a "Dreampi") and surfs FrogFind with the American Planetweb version is just magnificent. Sega does what Nintendon't!
Cheers to surfing with a controller!
Your FrogFind Team 🐸
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#retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #search #searchengine #frogFind #apple #mac #powerpc #internetExplorer #tasman
Catch of the Day: The Forbidden Apple! 🍏🪟
Hey Retro Fans!
Hold on to your CRT monitors, because our FrogFind radar has caught something today that feels like a relic from a parallel universe. Among all the Nintendos and Linux machines, this legendary identifier appeared:Internet Explorer 5.17 on Mac (PowerPC)!
For everyone rubbing their eyes right now: Yes, Internet Explorer existed for the Mac, and it was a big deal! Following the historic "peace treaty" between Steve Jobs and Bill Gates in 1997, Internet Explorer became the official default browser on all Apple computers for five years.
The craziest part? Mac IE was technically vastly superior to its Windows counterpart at the time! Microsoft built a completely bespoke rendering engine for Apple called Tasman, which was one of the very first to properly support CSS. Version 5.1.7 (released in the summer of 2003) was the absolute final update ever pushed for classic Mac OS 8 and 9 before Apple entirely shifted focus to their own browser, Safari.
The fact that today, over 20 years later, someone boots up an old PowerPC Mac (perhaps a colorful iMac G3?) and browses FrogFind with the Mac-exclusive Internet Explorer is a glorious time machine to an era when Microsoft and Apple surfed hand in hand.
Cheers to the Tasman engine!
Your FrogFind Team 🐸
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#retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #search #searchengine #frogFind #ibm #os2 #firefox #mozilla
Catch of the Day: The OS that tried to beat Windows! 🏢🔵
Hey Retro Fans!
Hold on to your floppy disks, because the FrogFind radar has caught a true piece of computing history today. Among all the Nintendos and old Macs, an operating system appeared that will make IT veterans immediately nod in respect: OS/2!Our bouncer logged this fabulous guest:
Mozilla Firefox 48.0 running on OS/2For the younger frogs in the pond: OS/2 was developed jointly by IBM and Microsoft in the late 80s and was intended to be the successor to DOS. It was technically superior, and its stable multitasking was a dream! But then Microsoft released Windows 3.1 and later Windows 95, the partnership shattered, and IBM's "better Windows" lost the great war for home computers.
The fact that today, in 2026, someone is browsing the web with OS/2 (probably via a modern continuation like ArcaOS or eComStation) and a specifically ported Firefox 48 is pure, unbridled love for the platform. OS/2 lives, and it uses FrogFind!
Cheers to the OS/2 Warp veterans!
Your FrogFind Team 🐸
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Allen #Stiftungen die (endlich) den Weg ins #Fediverse gefunden haben ein herzliches willkommen!! Ihr seid heute so zahlreich in meiner #Timeline das ich jetzt mal mit einem Post alle anspreche. #neuhier
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Mach Dich frei und gestalte mit!
Die Fediverse Instanz im und für den Raum Rotenburg (Wümme)
https://social.row-social.de
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#retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #search #searchengine #frogFind #mac #macos #internetexplorer #internetexplorer5
Catch of the Day: A Beta Look Back! 🍏🔍
Hey Retro Fans!
Today, the FrogFind radar caught a true software fossil that will make Apple historians' eyes light up: Internet Explorer 5.0b1 on a Mac!
Wait... b1? Exactly! The "b1" stands for Beta 1. We are not talking about the regular Internet Explorer 5 for the Mac (which was released in 2000 and, with its revolutionary Tasman engine, was the best Mac browser for a long time). No, this is an unfinished, shaky test version (Beta 1) from the summer or fall of 1999!
Whoever is running this machine today probably popped in an old "Macworld" magazine CD, installed this pre-release version, and is happily surfing through the Frog pond. Such leaks and early beta builds are often full of amusing bugs, placeholder graphics, and unfinished rendering routines. But FrogFind is tough and serves up the finest, most digestible HTML even to this beta relic.
We love it when you dig deep into your software archives!
Your FrogFind Team 🐸
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#retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #search #searchengine #frogFind #windowsCE #pocketPC #InternetExplorer #InternetExplorer4
Catch of the Day: The Pocket PC Revival! 📟🖋️
Hey Retro Fans!
Today, our FrogFind radar caught a true gem from the early mobile era: Internet Explorer 4.01 on Windows CE (Pocket PC)!Who doesn't remember the turn of the millennium, proudly pulling a Compaq iPAQ, HP Jornada, or Casio Cassiopeia out of a suit pocket? These devices ran Windows CE, featured resistive touchscreens operated with a tiny plastic stylus, and often boasted a whopping 32 or 64 megabytes of RAM.
The integrated "Pocket Internet Explorer" was a marvel back then, but is completely lost on the modern web. If it encounters even a kilobyte too much of modern JavaScript, the tiny processor immediately gives up. But this is exactly where FrogFind shines! On the classic 240x320 pixel displays of these PDAs, pure, fast HTML is rendered—and suddenly, the internet of 2026 is usable again on hardware from 1999.
Cheers to the saviors of classic PDAs! Keep a close eye on your styluses!
Your FrogFind Team 🐸
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#retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #search #searchengine #frogfind #os2 #ibm #netscape #navigator
Catch of the Day: Greetings from the OS/2 Warp Dimension! 🌀💻
Hey Retro Fans!
Our radar is glowing, and today we’ve caught a guest in the Frog pond that catapults us straight back to the mid-90s, right into the middle of the great operating system wars: Netscape Navigator 4.61 on IBM OS/2!
For those who don't remember: Before Windows 95 dominated the PC world, IBM and Microsoft worked together on OS/2. After the two giants split, IBM released OS/2 Warp as a direct competitor to Windows. It was technologically superior, ran extremely stably, and had fantastic multitasking—but ultimately lost the marketing battle to Microsoft.
The fact that today, in 2026, someone boots up a real OS/2 machine, launches the native Netscape Navigator 4.61, and uses it to ping FrogFind is retro computing at the absolute highest level. A true digital dinosaur proving that good software never truly dies.
May your multitasking always run smoothly!
Your FrogFind Team 🐸
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Cool, eine neue etwas moderne App für das File-Transfer Tool CROC. Braucht auch nicht soviel Speicher wie die bisher vorhandene Android App.
#linux #windows #android #p2p #filetransfer #filesharing #croc #f-droid #tool #app
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#retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #search #searchengine #FrogFind #BeOS #SeaMonkey
Catch of the Day: The Operating System of the Future That Stayed in the Past! 🐝💻
Hey Retro Fans!
Today, we get to celebrate a very special guest in the FrogFind logs. A user found their way to us using the SeaMonkey browser on BeOS!For those who weren't active in the tech scene in the late 90s: BeOS was the absolute dream of every power user. It was written from scratch by former Apple developers and specifically optimized for multimedia and true multitasking on multiprocessor systems. It was incredibly fast, stable, and featured a beautiful user interface.
In fact, in late 1996, Apple was very close to buying BeOS to use it as the foundation for the new Mac OS. If that deal had gone through, the computer world would look completely different today! (Apple ultimately chose NeXTSTEP instead and brought Steve Jobs back).
The fact that this technical masterpiece still lives on and is maintained in the retro community today (both the original and its open-source successor, Haiku), and that someone is using it to visit the Frog pond, is a huge honor for us.
May multitasking always be with you!
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#retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #search #searchengine #FrogFind #microsoft #apple #internetexplorer #macos
Catch of the Day: Microsoft's Masterpiece... for the Mac?! 🍏🪟
Hey Retro Fans!
Today we have a true exotic in the logs, reminding us of one of the most fascinating (and bizarre) eras in computer history. We recorded a solid 31 hits from Internet Explorer 5.0 running on a Mac!Yes, you read that right: Microsoft and Apple united on one screen.
Those who remember 1997 might recall the historic deal between Steve Jobs and Bill Gates that saved Apple from bankruptcy back then. Part of that deal: Internet Explorer became the default browser on all Macintosh computers for the next few years – long before Safari even existed!The craziest part about it? The Mac version wasn't just a lazy port of the Windows software. Microsoft's dedicated "Macintosh Business Unit" built a completely new rendering engine under the hood called Tasman. This led to the absurd situation where Internet Explorer 5.0 for the Mac, upon its release in 2000, was widely considered the most advanced, best-looking, and most standards-compliant browser on the entire market – it was technically vastly superior to Microsoft's own Windows version!
The fact that this historic piece of software is still being used today to surf the Frog pond is a wonderful homage to the crazy late 90s.
Stay retro and always think "Different"!
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#retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #search #searchengine #frogFind #ibm #os2 #mozilla #firefox
Catch of the Day: Greetings from the OS/2 Warp Zone! 🌀💾
Hey Retro Fans!
Today, we're shining our spotlight on a very special operating system in our logs. Someone actually visited the Frog pond using OS/2!With 4 clicks, Mozilla Firefox (Version 45.0) running on an OS/2 system showed up in our stats.
For those who weren't around in the 90s: OS/2 was IBM's legendary answer to Windows. Back then, it was often praised as "a better DOS than DOS and a better Windows than Windows." The OS/2 Warp version, in particular, brought true, rock-solid multitasking to PCs long before Microsoft pushed it into the mainstream with Windows 95.Although OS/2 ultimately lost the commercial battle for the desktop, it still retains an incredibly loyal and brilliant hardcore community today (partly through modern successors like ArcaOS) who even compile newer Firefox ports for the system. We think it's absolutely fantastic that this technical masterpiece is still being used today to browse the Frog pond!
May your systems never crash!
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#retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #search #searchengine #frogFind #pda #pocketpc #WindowsCE #InternetExplorer
Catch of the Day: The Return of the Pocket PCs! 📱🖊️
Hey Retro Fans!
Just in time for the weekend, we are shining our spotlight on a very special class of devices that popped up in our logs today: The forefathers of the smartphone!
An Internet Explorer 4.01 running on a classic Pocket PC (Windows CE) made an impressive return.
Think back to the late 90s and early 2000s: Before we all carried capacitive glass touchscreens in our pockets, devices like the Compaq iPAQ, the HP Jornada, or the Casio Cassiopeia ruled the business world. You operated them using a tiny plastic stylus on a resistive 240x320 pixel display.Modern, image-heavy, and script-bloated websites will instantly bring these early handhelds to their knees. But FrogFind, with its pure text output, is an absolute blessing for the limited memory and tiny screens of these PDAs. It’s wonderful to see that you haven't hung up your styluses just yet!
We wish you a great weekend – stay mobile and retro!
Your FrogFind Team 🐸
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#retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #search #searchengine #frogFind #apple #macos #internetexplorer #microsoft
FrogFind's "Catch of the Day": Sleeping with the Enemy? (Internet Explorer for Mac!) 🍏🤝🪟
Hey Retro Fans and have a great start to the week!
Today's Catch of the Day catapults us right back to 1997 – a time when Apple was on the brink of bankruptcy, and Steve Jobs made an announcement that caused the Mac community to gasp in horror. Around 12:32 PM, this legendary agent appeared in our logs:
🏆 Internet Explorer 4.0 on Mac
Why is this so special?
At the 1997 Macworld Expo, Steve Jobs announced a partnership with their arch-rival, Microsoft. Bill Gates invested $150 million into Apple, and in return, Internet Explorer became the default web browser on all Macintosh computers (starting with Mac OS 8.1) for five years!IE for Mac wasn't just a cheap Windows port, either. Microsoft had a dedicated, highly motivated Mac team that perfectly adapted the browser to match Apple's "Platinum" interface design. The fact that someone booted up this historical peace treaty between Apple and Microsoft this afternoon to visit FrogFind is pure computer romance.
Who needs Safari when you have IE 4? 😉
Your FrogFind Team 🐸
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Ich habe wirklich keine Ahnung was da passiert ist.... ich schwöre! 😇
Die Fediverse Instanz im und für den Raum Rotenburg (Wümme)
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Loving the days when I get the IPX Up and running (scheduled function test any 6 months)
#retrocomputing #sun #sparcstation #sparc #risc #ipx #solaris
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Back in all it's glory ...
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Reviving a SPARCstation IPX ... recapped PSU is working 😁
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Alle bei Weingärtner IT gehosteten #etherpads laufen ab jetzt auf v2.2.7
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All #etherpads hosted at Weingärtner IT now running on version V2.2.7--------------------------------------------
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Denne helga er eg på litteraturfestivalen #bLEST på Tysvær! Endeleg skal eg få lærd litt om #JonFosse av #LindaEide.
Eg manglar jo enda å lese ein av romanane hans, så eg er litt grøn. 🤔
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Konferansen over, no ventar togturen tilbake til #Noreg!
Det har kjens gjevande og ekstra gøy å reise på #konferanse i utlandet når arbeidsgjevar gjer meg løyve til å ta toget fram og tilbake. Då blir det ein gøy tur frå start til ende, og eg får sett ein stor del av Europa frå skjenene.
Håpar eg får moglegheita til å vitje fleire konferanser på denne måta i framtida!
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About to finally win my fight with the bitchy RS/6000 IBM 7011 Model 220 ... after denying to accept a NEC, an Apple, a Pioneer AND A Toshiba CD-ROM - acquired a Plextor and voila ...
#rs6000 #aix #bitchy #ibm #unix #pizza #workstation #retrocomputing
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🎲 Exploring the SU&SD Effect: Curious about the true influence of Shut Up & Sit Down's board game reviews? Join us on our journey as we dive into the data, featuring John Company by Cole Wehrle:
https://blog.recommend.games/posts/susd-effect/
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Eigentlich wollte ich mich auf Mastodon politischen Postings enthalten. Angesichts der einseitigen Mediendarstellung über den Krieg in Israel ("hat man nicht kommen sehen", "ungerechtfertigter Angriff") muss ich bei aller Abscheu von Krieg und Gewalt aber die Fakten klarstellen:
(1) https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resolution_446_des_UN-Sicherheitsrates - Resolution 446 spricht **Palästina** ein Selbstverteidungsrecht zu.
(2) Die aktuelle rechts-konservative Regierung Israels hat danach neue Siedlungen in Palästina unterstützt.