From: mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere   
      
   Retrograde  writes:   
      
   > On Sun, 10 Aug 2025 08:11:54 -0000 (UTC)   
   > Lawrence D'Oliveiro  wrote:   
   >   
   >> US-based ISP America On-Line (AOL) will finally turn off its dialup   
   >> Internet service at the end of September   
   >   
   > There are other dial-up providers beside AOL.  That kind of connection   
   > is only good for email however and maybe Usenet.  Impossible to surf   
   > the modern web.   
      
   There's a work-around that can help a little for site you visit often,   
   assuming that useful info will render w/o js, assuming you have a   
   resident web server on localhost and can write some perl code.   
      
   Put a link on your home page on localhost to a cgi-bin script. (You   
   *do* keep a home page on localhost, don't you? ;-) Cause that link to   
   send the real URL as data.   
      
   Create a cgi-bin perl script that reads the request from your bowser,   
   then uses wget or similar to fetch the target page.   
      
   The script reads in whatever is sent into a perl variable, then use   
   regexps to elide all IMG and SCRIPT tags/blocks, elides STYLE and SVG   
   blocks, elides and LINK tags the fetch or prefetch other data.   
      
   Re-writing and anchor tags that point back to the remote host so that   
   they point to the script instead (handing the script the real URL as   
   data) is also good but a little more trouble.   
      
   Script then sends the result of the editing process back to your   
   browser.   
      
   I've only been off dial-up for five years.  This hack sped up several   
   sites.  I still use some of the scripts to get rid of unwanted STYLE   
   and js.   
      
   Useless, of course, for all-js social media sites but I don't do those   
   anyway.   
      
   > I remember when webpages strove to keep an individual page size   
   > below 30KB.  Long ago.   
      
   Now some email has more than 30KB in headers, not to mention   
   unwarranted HTML with huge STYLE blocks.   
      
   --   
   Mike Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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