Re: Being a small-scale ISP

On 23 Dec, 09:57, Will Kemp <w...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

You couldn't send the browser a gif file if it's requested a jpg file
(well, not unless you called the jpeg somefile.gif - which might stop
the browser rendering it properly anyway).

Ha. All these kids today who don't remember - or weren't around to
remember - that the early browsers like Mosaic and Cello only did
gifs. This project will have people using those early browsers to view
modern web pages, hence the need for conversion.

Ian
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