From: anthk@disroot.org   
      
   On 2025-08-16, Mike Spencer  wrote:   
   >   
   > 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.   
   >   
      
   Just get a Gemini client. Bombadillo/Amfora, Kristall, Lagrange (the easiest.   
   Head to gemini://gemi.dev, enter to the News Waffle service.   
   Input any news or blog URL, the full one, with a preceeding https://,   
   such as https://arstechnica.com   
      
   Say hello to bandwidth saves down to a 5% of the original.   
      
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