FrogFind and 68k News

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Describes building two web portals, FrogFind.com and 68k.news, that use the open-source Readability library plus PHP to strip modern sites down to text-only HTML 1.1 (images optional) so very old browsers and vintage machines (e.g., Mosaic, Contiki on Apple II) can view contemporary web content. Explains the approach of server-side content deconstruction as an alternative to hardware upgrades/accelerators, and demonstrates how usable daily browsing can be on vintage systems when complex HTML and scripts are removed.

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