About
I’m not much for talking about myself, but since this is the “About” page, and you’re awesome, I’ll give it a shot!
The name’s Jon and I’m currently living in Southern Japan. One of my reasons for making a site like this is to relive those awesome times of venturing the web and reading awesome blogs about people’s thoughts. I’ve messed with computers all my life, and one thing I learned about operating systems are that locking yourself to just one isn’t fun. These are great tools to help you express, store, and relax, so we shouldn’t devote to just one platform. But I do have a strong preference for UNIX computers, Classic Mac OS, and Mac OS X (or just macOS now).
As for how I have this site arranged, I’m using my Synology NAS to host. On top of that, I use a static site generator called Jekyll to compile two different versions of my site using a few scripts I wrote to automate the process. To test if the site is working, I’m using Netscape Navigator 4.5 on my PowerBook G3 (PDQ) with Mac OS 9.1 and about 192MB of RAM. If it works on Netscape, then it’s gotta work with Classilla. This site is not perfect, but I’m super happy with how it turned out!
Besides all the technical stuff, I enjoy mountain hiking in Japan, and in the future I definitely want to climb Mt. Bandai in Fukushima. I also enjoy making my own Chicago Deep Dish Pizza, since it’s my favorite food in the universe, watching retro anime and tv shows on my CRT using a Raspberry Pi, and gaming in general!
Links
Here’s various links I’ve bookmarked from the 90’s to now that work on older computers.
Vintage Surfing
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The Old Net - Uses the Internet Archive to let you browse the vintage web. Useful for sites that have also been deleted
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FrogFind - Search Engine for Vintage Computers created by ActionRetro (YouTube Link).
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Cornica - Watch Quicktime videos preserved by the community. Also has a links page that lists more awesome sites to visit on retro computers!
Personal Sites
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Steve the Fish (HTTPS) - Back when I was a kid, I enjoyed gazing at his anime shrines and reading about life in Japan.
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Kalleboo - Here’s another person living in Japan that also enjoys vintage apple computers
Social Media
- Still working on adding it to my page (sorry, I’m not too big on social media, I still call friends versus texting and posting >_<)