What's the *weirdest* device you've used a web browser on?
Do you have a photo of it that I could use in a presentation? (With full credit, of course.)
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@Edent I may have a photo of a ‘free web browser and email access’-type terminal in Heathrow Airport from 2000. Also, does anything with WAP count? Such as a Sony Ericsson K810i.
@jackmcconnell ooh! If you have the terminal picture, that would be great, thanks 😃
@Edent I’ll need to blur some faces but I’ve found the photo - it's from a grainy late-90s digital camera. How would you like it sent to you?
@Edent It may not be what you are looking for, but I like to run Firefox to do strange things on my phones, first is to develop and debug a website right on the phone, second is to run my open source self hosting platform on the phone itself and use it on the browser. Localhost in the address bar is the key :)
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I wonder if the Woosh browser I used on my Neo Freerunner is still found somewhere... https://people.debian.org/~timo/NeoFreeRunner/debian5.png sadly no screenshot or photo of the actual browser, but here's photo of it running OpenOffice 3 (128MB RAM, it swapped and opening it took 5 minutes) https://people.debian.org/~timo/NeoFreeRunner/freerunner_runs_openoffice3.jpg
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@Edent My original PSP
@Edent the Nintendo DS browser required a memory expansion cartridge you put in the slot normally used for old Game Boy cartridges.
@Edent The Sega Dreamcast web browser could download save files from websites! They later released a version 2.0 on a separate disc since there was no way to do software updates.
@Edent it’s 18 years ago-ish but a Nokia 3220 I believe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_3220. I logged into msn 😄
@Edent I didn’t actually use this device, but I took the picture of it so I know it existed and was (ostensibly) serviced.
@Edent Not sure where it sits on the weird scale, but browsing on a Kindle in 2012 definitely felt a little odd. https://flic.kr/p/bM49SD
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I just thought of a Nintendo 3DS off the top of my head. I also used to have an OGO from Swisscom, but I don't know if it had a web browser. 🤔 It probably did, but email was definitely free.
This has absolutely nothing to do with it, but: https://swiss.social/@LukePhilipps/115465247796431366
