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====== Features ====== | ====== Features ====== | ||
+ | ALTERNET serves older (circa 90's) web sites. It is the easiest way to browse the Internet as it appeared in it's early days. | ||
- | * Access to thousands of web sites from the early years of the Internet, that have been restored for historical accuracy | + | * Access to thousands of web sites from the early years of the Internet, that have been reconstructed for historical accuracy |
* Supports networked vintage computers | * Supports networked vintage computers | ||
* Thousands of downloads | * Thousands of downloads | ||
* Working historical search engines | * Working historical search engines | ||
- | ===== Tested web browsers ===== | ||
- | ==== Internet Explorer ==== | ||
- | * Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0 | ||
- | * Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 | ||
- | ==== Netscape ==== | + | ===== Supported web browsers ===== |
- | * Netscape Navigator 2.0 | + | Our services have been tested to work with the following OS/web browser combinations: |
- | * Netscape Navigator 3.0 Gold | + | |
+ | ^ OS ^ Product Name ^ Version ^ Status ^ | ||
+ | | **MS-DOS** | Arachne | 1.97 | Supported | | ||
+ | | **Windows 3.1** \\ //(16-bit)// | Microsoft Internet Explorer | 1.0 | Not Tested :!: | | ||
+ | | ::: | ::: | 2.0 | Not Tested :!: | | ||
+ | | ::: | ::: | 3.0 | Supported | | ||
+ | | ::: | Mosaic Netscape | 0.9 beta | Not Tested :!: | | ||
+ | | ::: | Netscape Navigator | 1.0 | Not Tested :!: | | ||
+ | | ::: | ::: | 2.0 | Not Tested :!: | | ||
+ | | ::: | ::: | 3.0 | Supported | | ||
+ | | ::: | ::: | 3.0 Gold | Supported | | ||
+ | | **Windows 9x** \\ //(32-bit)// | Microsoft Internet Explorer | 1.0 | Not Tested :!: | | ||
+ | | ::: | ::: | 2.0 | Not Tested :!: | | ||
+ | | ::: | ::: | 3.0 | Supported | | ||
+ | | ::: | ::: | 4.0 | Supported | | ||
+ | | ::: | ::: | 5.0 | Supported | | ||
+ | | ::: | ::: | 5.5 | Supported | | ||
+ | | ::: | ::: | 7.0 | Supported | | ||
+ | | ::: | ::: | 8.0 | Supported | | ||
+ | | ::: | ::: | 9.0 | Supported | | ||
+ | | ::: | ::: | 10.0 | Supported | | ||
+ | | ::: | ::: | 11.0 | Supported | | ||
+ | | ::: | Mosaic Netscape | 0.9 beta | Not Tested :!: | | ||
+ | | ::: | Netscape Navigator | 1.0 | Not Tested :!: | | ||
+ | | ::: | ::: | 2.0 | Not Tested :!: | | ||
+ | | ::: | ::: | 3.0 | Supported | | ||
+ | | ::: | ::: | 3.0 Gold | Supported | | ||
+ | | ::: | Netscape Communicator | 4.0 | Supported | | ||
+ | | ::: | ::: | 4.5 | Supported | | ||
+ | | ::: | NCSA Mosaic | 1.0 | Not Tested :!: | | ||
+ | | ::: | ::: | 2.0 | Not Tested :!: | | ||
+ | | ::: | ::: | 3.0 | Not Tested :!: | | ||
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+ | ===== Server Development Status ===== | ||
+ | | HTTP support | 100% | Complete! | | | ||
+ | | FTP support | 100% | Complete! | | | ||
+ | | Gopher support | 0% | Not implemented | Plans are for a future release | | ||
+ | | News client support | 0% | Not implemented | Plans are for a future release | | ||
+ | | Telnet services | 0% | Not implemented | Plans are for a future release | | ||
+ | | System generated error pages | 100% | Complete! | System reports proper error conditions to the web browser. | | ||
+ | | System generated file index | 100% | Complete! | | | ||
+ | | CGI script handling | 100% | Complete! | | | ||
+ | | MIME types | 90% | Mostly done | MIME type reporting handled mostly correctly. | | ||
+ | | Search engines | 40% | In progress | Core search engine. Partial functionality with historical Yahoo search. | | ||