alternet:features
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Features
ALTERNET serves older (circa 90's) web sites. It is the easiest way to browse the Internet as it appeared in it's early days.
- Access to thousands of web sites from the early years of the Internet, that have been restored for historical accuracy
- Supports networked vintage computers
- Thousands of downloads
- Working historical search engines
Supported web browsers
Our services have been tested to work with the following web browsers:
| Name | Status |
|---|---|
| Arachne 1.97 | Supported |
| Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0 | Supported |
| Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 | Supported |
| Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 | Supported |
| Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 | Supported |
| Netscape Navigator 2.0 | Supported |
| Netscape Navigator 3.0 | Supported |
| Netscape Navigator 3.0 Gold | Supported |
| Netscape Communicator 4.0 | Supported |
| Netscape Communicator 4.5 | Supported |
Server Development Status
| HTTP support | 100% | Complete! | |
| FTP support | 100% | Complete! | |
| Gopher support | 0% | Not implemented | Plans are for a future release |
| News client support | 0% | Not implemented | Plans are for a future release |
| Telnet services | 0% | Not implemented | Plans are for a future release |
| System generated error pages | 100% | Complete! | System reports proper error conditions to the web browser. |
| System generated file index | 100% | Complete! | |
| CGI script handling | 100% | Complete! | |
| MIME types | 90% | Mostly done | MIME type reporting handled mostly correctly. |
| Search engines | 40% | In progress | Core search engine. Partial functionality with historical Yahoo search. |
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