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. Sorted by submission date.

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).

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

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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