Old Computer Challenge

Year 4

OCC 2024 has ended, but you can participate on your own all year long and share your experience with us!

The topic of this year's OCC was DIY. Get inspired by other users and previous years and craft your own OCC experience!

The Challengees

Following is the list of Old Computer Challengees and the chronicling of their experiences.

Just like last year, you can submit your blog, gopher hole or gemini capsule, through our nc submission. Just run the following code and replace https://my.site with the url of your page:

$ echo "/cgi-bin/submit?https://my.site" | nc occ.deadnet.se 70

You can also manually submit your page through the occ gopher hole here or here (http proxy).

• 0x00 | TC 2048
• 82mhz | "Back to 2000s"
• andreixyz | "Party like it's 2004"
• angora.pet | 9front
• Daniel | 586 NetBSD
• ddlyh | Pentium III, 128M, no phones allowed
• gopher: ~dokuja (http proxy) | G3 iMac
• durrendal | the Ruby crusades
• gopher: ed(1) conference (http proxy) | Combination of the three
• gopher: emilio (website) | (es)
• gopher: gef (http proxy) | observe and understand
• Headcrash | Apple flavored OCC
• gemini: jasonsanta (http proxy) | Intel Atom Win7
• jag | OpenBSD
• gopher: jdd (http proxy) | Internet on Demand
• JDRM | T500 9front
• gemini: jmcunx (http proxy) | xorgless OpenBSD like it's 1989
• Keith Burnett | "actually using troff"
• Klaus Zimmermann | "Push it to the limit!"
• gemini ~lettuce (http proxy) | zine making
• Marc | Debian Dell
• gopher: matto (http proxy) | no X11, no xorg, FreeBSD
• gopher: ~mhd (http proxy)
• gemini: mio (http proxy) | Portrait of a penguin as an old computer
• msangi | 2009 Macbook
• Nathan | Many Macs
• Paths of the Moon | A glorious Sony VAIO
• prahou | xorgless OpenBSD
• rollcat | hand-me-down-Macs
• gopher: sinza (http proxy) | in favor of the 2000s
• sizeof(cat) | Windows 7
• gemini: socksinspace (http proxy) | EeePC 4G
• Steve Lord | Going Newer Than Normal
• gopher: ~stoickidoomer (https proxy) | trickled(8)
• gopher: sunoc (http proxy) **work in progress**
• teabag.ninja | Acer 3500
• Tekk | Now with 30% more fruit
• thedaemon | "artists of the front!"
• gemini: vigilia (http proxy) | First gen Macbook Air and OpenBSD
• gopher: xiled (http proxy)

You can investigate this OPML file, which contains all the known RSS feeds of the participants above.

Keep up:

• (occ) deadnet forum
• irc: #oldcomputerchallenge irc.libera.chat
• mailing list: email this address to subscribe
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