It's funny that this was my first thought, too. I am sure game console browsers were an entry point for whole generations of kids.
Mine WOULD have been through the Dreamcast, but because my parents were early adopters of Broadband internet, we never had a dial-up connection to hook the modem up to.
I did a bit of curious searching on the family PC, but one time I forgot to wipe the history, and the game was up. The first thing with a web browser that was "mine" was the PSP in high school, and I even had a special second memory card (512MB) that I would save things to that I'd take it out and hide it in a crevice in my bedframe when I was done.
> I did a bit of curious searching on the family PC, but one time I forgot to wipe the history, and the game was up.
Hahaha that takes me back to the time my friend got hold of a 3.5” floppy with some Playboy pics on it, and then called me in a panic because Windows had helpfully added them to the “recent files” list and he couldn’t figure out how to clear it.
I would like to understand the pedigree of those images. Someone had to go through an awful LOT of trouble to save them to a floppy... This leaves a lot of open questions. Scanners at the time were technological torture apparatus.
This is only tangentially related to early high-quality materials, but since I'm already strolling down memory lane: My dad used to work as an after-hours maintenance tech at a graphic imaging company. For several years my mom worked days and my dad worked nights. Occasionally, my brother and I would get to go to work with either parent to give the other a break from watching us every day.
Going to work with dad was fun. Somehow he determined we wouldn't be able to do any harm, and let us sit at some of the editing stations (Macintosh Quadras of some type, iirc) and mess around in Photoshop (I think version 5.0 or 6.0?). Of course we got to digging through the files. One of them had a couple folders of some pin-up photoshoots. Incredibly high-resolution scans displayed proudly on a 20" Applevision CRT rivaling the size of our home television. Photos that would have taken an hour to download over the web if you could even find a place hosting them. We were too young to really appreciate it, but thinking back, that's an experience I'd be willing to bet none of my peers had.
There was also a folder of promotional monster truck material and some photoshoots from car shows. We were definitely more interested in those.
Sitting in that warm cramped room surrounded by 8 workstations with TENS of gigabytes of spinning rust will forever be a core memory. I miss the old HDD sound.
No idea, this was in the early 90s so we're talking very low resolution pics. I imagine they'd been sneakernetted around school yards for months on floppies after someone found their parent's stash and managed to yoink a copy.
I seem to remember some pirate copies of art packages (maybe Photon paint) on the Amiga coming with a similar set of images that would be of interest to some teenagers...
Later in its life, the Dreamcast release the "broadband adapter", a 100mbit Ethernet replacement for the modem. Worked great, but very limited support in games. That plus a DC keyboard and mouse made me BRUTAL in quake 3... until someone worked out how to join DC games from the PC.
I actually had to go check to make sure the DC did originally have a modem before posting. I've been dabbling in Dreamcast modding the last couple of years, and the only network adapter that came to mind was the broadband one which, colored my childhood memories a bit. I remember there being a very specific reason we couldn't get the DC online, and "not having a long enough ethernet cable" definitely wasn't it.
Looking at the source I don't think that's true -- it's using GitHub specific APIs to read/write files. It's not standard git so any remote wouldn't work, and the mechanics are more akin to a key-value store than git really.
Not to say you couldn't add a generic git protocol to this, just that that's not being done here.
> The protocol itself isn’t tied to GitHub and works with any Git remote.
> If GitHub ever decided this wasn’t an acceptable use case, swapping the remote would be trivial.
Nope.
From the README:
"GitHub is the only working write provider right now. GitLab, GitVerse, Gitea, Forgejo, and other git hosts are protocol targets for future adapters. Today they are not finished write adapters."
Skip the AI slop calculator and go straight to this recipe.
This recipe is war-hardened.
Yields: Approximately 5 6 in/6cm pancakes (Serves 2–3)
Ingredient | Measurement
All-purpose flour (type 00 flower works well) | 210 g (1 ½ cups)
Sugar | 50 g (¼ cup)
Baking soda/backnatron | 5–10 g (2 tsp)
Butter | 55 g (¼ cup), plus extra for the pan
Vanilla sugar (preferably) or extract | 5–10 g (2 tsp)
Large eggs | 2
Whole milk | 245 g / 240 ml (1 cup)
Fresh berries | As desired (blueberries, raspberries, blackberries)
Instructions
Prep: Preheat your frying pan over medium heat. Grease the surface lightly with butter or oil.
Combine: In a bowl, whisk together the flour, sugar, and baking soda. In a separate container, whisk the eggs, milk, melted butter, and vanilla. Gently stir the wet ingredients into the dry until just combined.
Cook: Ladle one soup ladle of batter into the hot pan.
Add Berries: Drop a few fresh berries onto the top of the cooking pancake.
Flip: Cook until bubbles have popped and stopped forming, then flip.
Adjust heat if necessary: If the pancake is slightly burnt, reduce the heat. Cook until golden brown.
The picture provided doesn't inspire much confidence in their ability to make pancakes, especially after "25" years. They are burnt, sad-looking pancakes.
Question: Does Blues Traveler appear in the Epstein files?
Blues Traveler
Answer:
Yes, "Blues Traveler" appears in the files, but not in a way that directly connects the band to Jeffrey Epstein or his activities.
Key Findings:
XM Radio Mention: An email from "XM Signal" dated July 8, 2008, mentions a "Starbucks XM Café Live with Blues Traveler" event. [1] This appears to be a reference to a broadcast or performance by the band on XM Satellite Radio.
Analysis:
The searches did not reveal any direct involvement of the band "Blues Traveler" with Jeffrey Epstein or his associates. The mention found is in the context of a radio event.
It's important to distinguish this from the multiple mentions of "Blue Water Café," which is a restaurant and appears in several travel itineraries. [2][3][4]
Further Investigation:
If you have a specific reason to believe "Blues Traveler" might be connected, please provide more details. For instance, was there a particular event, person, or date you had in mind? This could help refine the search.
After playing around with vector db's for a bit, I got tired of this sort of thing.
There's a reason most of the industry has switched to letting agents grep + navigate within the results.
Come to think of it, it's probably the same reason "intelligent" search engines were so consistently hated by end users, and never really panned out during the early 2000's.
Good work! I first played this game in my elementary school computer lab which was stocked first with apple IIe. They then transitioned to apple LC with 1 or two Power Macintosh G3 All-In-One models. On these machines they had this game and Nanosaur.
