![]() Markdown, which I have written about here at The New Leaf Journal, is another simple markup language (but even simpler than HTML). HTML is a simple markup language that can be written in a basic text editor. While I am neither a programmer nor a coder, I will do my best to explain this for the broader audience. I then further strip down the results to be as basic HTML as possible. When clicking through to pages from search results, those pages are processed through a PHP port of Mozilla’s Readability, which is what powers Firefox’s reader mode. How Does FrogFind Work?Īction Retro describes FrogFind as being “basically a custom wrapper for DuckDuckGo search.” It converts the results page for a query into “extremely basic HTML that old browsers can read.” What makes FrogFind particularly interesting, however, is not how it presents search results, but instead how it processes search results. Most of his testing was done on the very modern Netscape 1.1N and 2.0.2 browsers. Action Retro tested FrogFind on his Apple Macintosh SE/30. ![]() Gurbo’s 2007 MacBook, he means something much older. I decided to see how much of the internet I could turn into basic websites, so that old machines can browse the modern internet yet again!Īction Retro noted that he specifically developed FrogFind “with classic Macs in mind.” Lest you think he meant the kind of “classic Mac” that I installed Bodhi Linux on my colleague Victor V. Action Retro created FrogFind as a way to make the internet amenable to the computers of yesteryear: While modern web design and encryption is beyond the scope of some ancient hardware, these old computers are still capable of browsing the internet. He modern internet is not kind to old machines, which generally cannot handle the complicated javascript, CSS, and encryption that modern sites have. Mr. Action Retro does not only collect vintage machines, he enjoys “try to get them online.” However, Action Retro explained that getting very old computers online is often easier said than done: You can see the original About Page at the below links:įrogFind is a search tool developed by a vintage computer enthusiast named Sean who goes by Action Retro on his popular YouTube channel. ![]() In the following subsections, I will follow the content of the FrogFind About page to explain why FrogFind was created and how it works under the hood.
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