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It's been compiling for two days straight... (lemmy.world)
submitted 10 months ago by carl_the_llama@lemmy.world to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
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For the curious ones the machine is a 2001 IBM Thinkpad T22 with 20Gb of HDD, 256 Mb of RAM and an Intel Pentium 3 @ 900MHz.

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[–] jeena@jemmy.jeena.net 21 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Back in the day, around 2005 or 2006 I did that and I had browse the internet in a text based browser for 2 days because KDE on that old machine took two days to compile.

[–] JetpackJackson@feddit.de 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

How did it go? I'm trying to make my website more accessible by running it through w3m, so I wonder how the sites back then did.

[–] jeena@jemmy.jeena.net 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It depends on the site, back then there were a lot of table-layouts which were quite fucked up in the text-only browser. Nowadays there are non of them which is good, but nowadays there are JavaScript only websites which don't really work well. You can install a text only browser and try it out yourself.

[–] JetpackJackson@feddit.de 1 points 10 months ago

I'm already playing around with w3m but I had no idea about that table thing, sounds rough. Thanks for the links (pun unintended)

[–] carl_the_llama@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I'm so glad that I'm reliving those experiences because I want and not because I need to.