Greetings from OPENSTEP 4.2

If you are reading this in OmniWeb on a NeXT desktop, then everything worked. This page is served over plain HTTP on purpose, with no CSS and no JavaScript, so that a browser from 1997 can render it exactly as intended.

Every other address on this domain redirects to HTTPS. This little corner at /openstep is the one door left open for vintage clients that cannot negotiate modern TLS.

How this machine got here

• OPENSTEP 4.2 for Intel, running inside VirtualBox
• Display via the VESA VBE driver
• Networking over the AMD PCnet-32 adapter (NAT)
• Sound courtesy of the University of Glasgow SBSoundMidi driver

A little history

The first web browser and the first web server both ran on NeXT hardware, written by Tim Berners-Lee on a NeXTcube at CERN. So a NeXT machine browsing the web is not a novelty. It is the web returning to where it began.