Came across this long, detailed blog post earlier today writing about the history of yet another way to visit websites. It’s disappointing how things went in that area, but also kind of cool how hard people tried despite everything.
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I remember the Sega Dreamcast not being that bad.
Fascinating, thank you for sharing! I love reading about old hardware like this, and I’m always interested in how we can use it today. I feel like a lot of these older consoles with web connections would be perfect for browsing the Gopher and Gemini protocols, if only they would get online. I know that some of them, like the Sony PSP, can no longer connect to Wifi because the protocols they support are too old at this point. But the Gamecube had ethernet support, which should still be supported. I’d love to get one of those peripherals and try to write up a rudimentary Gemini browser for one of them at some point.
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Turns out that blog post is part of a series, and a new installment just dropped: Web Browsers on PDAs | Vale.Rocks