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       R e t r o  C o r n e r

Plan79 Retro Corner

Welcome to my small corner of the net. This site is a quiet place: an archive of tools, thoughts, and tech from a simpler time.

Topics you’ll find here include:

• Linux and Unix-like systems
• Retro hardware & software
• OpenBSD, FreeBSD
• MS-DOS, Windows 98 SE
• Minimal computing, slow web, and some modern tech talk
• How I set this server up:
  • Oracle server, free tier. How to setup.
  • Why I ditched lighttp and instead chose nginx.
  • How to setup multiple subdomains, and adding SSL encryption using certbot (Letsencrypt).
  • How to setup the gemini server.
  • How to create the pages in Markdown, push to Gitlab and how the server takes it and publishes automagically using pandoc.
• How I set up my laptop:
  • How I setup my Arch Linux: How I moved to Wayland, how to setup hyprland/waybar, how it quite complete already.
  • How to setup Lazyvim (make it saner)

This site is intentionally low-tech. It’s built to load fast, read well in text browsers like links or lynx, and to be usable on machines most people have long forgotten.

No scripts. No tracking. Just text, ideas, and the kind of content that made the early web feel human.

Mirrors on This Server

This server hosts mirrors of the following sites for easier access and archival purposes:

• A mirror of Belgeler.org.tr (Linux Kitaplığı) is available at https://belgeler.plan79.com (also accessible via HTTP). The original site can be found at http://belgeler.org.tr.

• A mirror of the Universal Paperclips game is available at https://paperclips.plan79.com (also accessible via HTTP). The original game is hosted at https://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/.

• A mirror of the Kim Korkar Unix’ten book is available at https://retro.plan79.com/static/kim-korkar-unixten.pdf (PDF) (also accessible via HTTP). The original book is hosted at (TODO).

Metadata

• Latest build completed at Mon, 07 Jul 2025 13:37:10 +0300.
• Server info at build time: Linux 6.8.0-1026-oracle x86_64 up 4 weeks, 1 day, 10 hours, 47 minutes.