Happy Birthday, #Ethernet!

Man, this article took me down memory lane lol. My networking days started with #10Base2, T-connectors, #ISA NICs, #tokenring topologies, and #Novell's IPX/SPX! #Thicknet was already old tech when I got into it in the mid to late 1980's. But I did learn about it at my local library! I wasn't even 10 yet!

Can you even imagine what a #terabit looks like? My past self wouldn't have even thought that was possible in his lifetime lol.

Thank you Bob Metcalfe! Our world literally would not be what it is without your invention.

https://labs.ripe.net/author/ondrej_caletka_1/from-megabits-to-terabits-ethernet-celebrates-its-birthday/

Icon design on an NLD workstation. @lapz helpline channel at full capacity. 2009(?)

#blastfromthepast #novell #suse #gnome #icon #inkscape

#retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #search #searchengine #frogFind #novell #netware #icebrowser

Catch of the Day: Surfing in the Server Room! 🦖💾

Hey Retro Fans and IT Veterans!

Sometimes our FrogFind radar catches exotics that make even hardcore system administrators rub their eyes in disbelief. Forget old handhelds or consoles—today we are diving deep into the flickering neon lights of the corporate server rooms of the early 2000s.

Our bouncer logged this majestic user agent:
Mozilla/5.0 (NetWare; U; NetWare 6.50.08; en-US) ICEbrowser/6.1.2 NovellViewPort/3.7.2

For anyone who entered IT after 1995: We are talking about Novell NetWare 6.5! This was not a system for browsing or gaming. NetWare was the undisputed file and print server operating system that practically kept every corporate network running back in the day. An absolute workhorse.

But how does a NetWare server end up on FrogFind? The answer lies in the ICEbrowser tag. To display help files or the "Novell Remote Manager" directly at the server rack on the graphical emergency console, Novell had embedded a tiny, Java-written browser from ICEsoft. It was never intended to explore the open World Wide Web!

The fact that now, over 20 years later, someone is literally (or via remote connection) sitting in front of this server legend, opening the graphical console, hijacking the rudimentary Java help viewer, and using it to ping FrogFind is absolute top-tier retro computing. FrogFind delivers even to this pure server operating system the bare HTML it needs to read today's world.

Cheers to the unknown admin keeping this server alive! May your disk arrays never fail.

Your FrogFind Team 🐸

#retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #search #searchengine #frogFind #novell #netware #icebrowser

Sneak Peek of tomorrow’s article :

gopher://gopher.retrocomputing.at/1/blog/2026-05-02-NetwareFrogfind

Back In The Day - early/mid 90s - I saw #SCO (or possibly #Novell) demo a version of #Unixware on some funky PC hardware where you could add and remove physical CPUs and memory on the fly. Does anyone remember what that hardware was?

And does anyone know when this feature will be added to #QEMU? It's just that my #FreeBSD testing VM has just started swapping, and I'd like to allocate more memory without having to stop it.

#retrocomputing