On 2026-07-06 10:58 a.m., info--- via cctalk wrote:
I run
www.punchcardarchive.com. It runs on a shared
server so I don’t worry too much about that stuff. My fun and games are defeating the bots
and useless messages from my Contact page. I have a homegrown captcha. I require Roman
characters. I added a honeypot field. I require a minimum number of words in the message.
I recently got a message that had a whole page of text with a very weird message. So I am
putting in a max number of words test. And I am adding a timer to the page so if the
send-receive time is less that some number of seconds I will consider it spam.
The internet is the Wild Wild West. Minus Jim West and Artemus Gordon.
Soon to be run by By Big Brother, AI.
It seems every link is hijacked for a AD, or adult or other wise.
I don't mind a site going off line, but rather the site being removed
from the web. I might not need to know of punch cards today, but who
knows in 5 years.
What I would like to is how MAG tape (7 track) was used before computers
has Operating Systems.