Sad news guys. After over 25 years of support, Google has finally discontinued support for Dreamcast web browsers. ☹️
Google search page no longer works on Dreamcast's web browser
Sad news guys. After over 25 years of support, Google has finally discontinued support for Dreamcast web browsers. ☹️
16 Comments
halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world · 72 pts · 253d
I hate this type of unsupported page shit. Give me a banner saying it's unsupported and let the browser still try. Most of the time it will still work.
Artificially blocking usage entirely is a bad user experience.
Aeri@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 252d
Call me crazy but I think that computers volunteer way too much fuggin information when connecting to websites. User agents as we know them shouldn't exist, the website should have no DAMN clue what kind of device I'm using.
I've always been creeped out by stuff like that old form signature that would show what your IP is and stuff, i always hated how the facepunch forum would expose your OS for no real reason and you cant choose not to display it.
pimento64@sopuli.xyz · 6 pts · 252d
So install an extension that masks your user agent
Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 251d
User agents are a mess that is half blatant lies on a good day. Blame early browsers (*cough* Internet Explorer *cough*) for being outdated or not standards compliant, so websites started serving different code based on reported user agent, leading browsers to start adding random crap to their user string to fool sites into giving them the right code so they'd work properly.
elephantium@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 252d
Wait, where was this? I'm drawing a blank.
0_o7@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 252d
I think he meant forum signature. Some of them used to allow dynamic ones.
Aeri@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 252d
Any site that let you set a forum signature. It didn't really tell the person who had it what your IP is but it'd be a little emoji guy holding a sign that says like "I see you! Your IP is so and so on browser in country"
StopSpazzing@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 251d
I had this in my signatures. Those were the fun days.
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 252d
What is there to support anyway? It's just a page of links. It's not as if it required some super high tech stuff.
Zachariah@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 253d
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glossary/Graceful_degradation
B0NK3RS@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 253d
Dreamcast was my first time going online at home back in the day.
givesomefucks@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 253d
The only AI I want integrated into a browser is Seaman...
Iheartcheese@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 253d
Leave me alone with your computer for a few minutes and I can help you with that
Psythik@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 252d
Neat. I had an aunt that used WebTV.
Personally I never got to experience the internet from a 480i CRT myself, because my family always had a PC growing up. Closest I ever got was connecting my PSP to wifi back in the day. But then I got a smartphone shortly after and the rest is history.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 253d
Duckduckgo.com non-JS?
B0NK3RS@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 253d
CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world · -2 pts · 252d
And nothing of value was lost.