Old Web browser emulation - for your entertainment

[wlanboy]

http://oldweb.today/ has a nice feature to both look at web archive and old browsers at the same time.


Scary list of browsers you can currently use:





My own homepage on a Power Mac 4400 with Netscape 3.04:

 

[Nett]

Looks like it's based on archive.org?

 

[wlanboy]

Looks like it's based on archive.org?

It is - but with an good browser emulator.

 

[Nett]

It is - but with an good browser emulator.

I'm actually concerned about its security... http://i.imgur.com/0Dv8RuR.png

 

[wlanboy]

I'm actually concerned about its security... http://imgur.com/0Dv8RuR

They use pyweb as a proxy (if you know how to force exceptions):

 

[wlanboy]

And found the quick howto:


oldweb.today is built with open source tools:

• Docker containers to manage user sessions and scale across machines.
  
• Wine, Basilisk and Sheepshaver emulators are used to run old browsers on legacy platforms.
  
• noVNC provides VNC support in HTML over Websockets.
  

 

[Nett]

And found the quick howto:


oldweb.today is built with open source tools:

• Docker containers to manage user sessions and scale across machines.
  
• Wine, Basilisk and Sheepshaver emulators are used to run old browsers on legacy platforms.
  
• noVNC provides VNC support in HTML over Websockets.
  

Docker seems neat

 

[asadito]

Ahahahah very Funny !

 

[HalfEatenPie]

Oh man!  I remember the days of good old Netscape Navigator!  We had the old old Macs and such. 


Didn't the old AOL Browser exist around then too?  

 

[wlanboy]

Didn't the old AOL Browser exist around then too?  

Yup:

 

[HalfEatenPie]

Oh man.


Didn't expect to see that graph right there.  

 

[HN-Matt]

 

[InfinityDaniel]

Ahh how the internet used to work. Love it.

 

[web-project]

I used to like Netscape Navigator