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ArsTechnica has a fun project--hacking a TRS-80 to get online:
The true test of a man's patience is crimping pins onto the end of a cable that leads to building a custom serial cable—especially if it's the first time you've even handled a serial cable in a decade. So as I searched under my desk, using my phone for a flashlight, I wondered whether I had finally found the IT project that would send me over the edge. On a recent day, I set out to turn my recently acquired vintage Radio Shack TRS-80 Model 100 computer into a working Internet terminal. And at this moment, I crawled on the floor looking for a DB-25 connector's little gold pin that I had dropped for the sixth—or maybe sixteenth—time.
Thankfully, I underestimated my patience/techno-masochism/insanity. Only a week later, I successfully logged in to Ars' editorial IRC channel from the Model 100. And seeing as this machine first saw the market in 1983, it took a substantial amount of help: a Raspberry Pi, a little bit of BASIC code, and a hidden file from the website of a certain Eric S. Raymond.
(Score: -1, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 05 2015, @09:20PM
Nice work conflating the Internet and the World Wide Web.
Would you like to try again, or would you prefer to turn in your geek card now?
Good to see arstechnica has fully embraced the World Wide Web Of Shit. You know, I might expect better from an IT Editor, systems administrator, and network systems integrator, but then I see the editor is a former Navy officer, so I know he's a stupid American asshole.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 05 2015, @10:02PM
Read TFA, it was the web he was (trying to) surf you loser.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Phoenix666 on Thursday August 06 2015, @12:43AM
TFA says he was browsing with Lynx.
Washington DC delenda est.