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I’m sorry this is so vague, I’m in transit right now; so I’m a little lazy to try to Google this from my phone - but there is some sort of proxy-type thing for
by lostgame 4y ago
I’m sorry this is so vague, I’m in transit right now; so I’m a little lazy to try to Google this from my phone - but there is some sort of proxy-type thing for these old Macs that allows you to use the ‘modern web’, to an…extent?
I think it kinda works the way Opera Mini does or something, if that makes sense?
It does totally solve the HTTPS issue. You could easily access HN using this method through even Netscape.
There is also - I want to say - again pardon me if I’m wrong here, but I believe it’s called ‘Classzilla’?
This is for - AFAIK - at least MacOS 9 (you might be screwed for 8, though) and does old.Reddit.com pretty okay for me as long as I have enough RAM in the unit, so it should also handle HN totally fine.
I actually think it - along with, unfortunately; an absolutely incredible modern Firefox port for PPC Macs running 10.4/10.5 called ‘TenFourFox’, are now abandoned - but very much still available.
It was a pretty big hit to the (admittedly small) PPC Mac community when it happened.
I personally still use TenFourFox almost every day as I use my PPC Mac collection often for various tasks, especially my quad G5 that has 16GB(!) RAM.
(Yeah, a PPC Mac with I believe 2 processors/4 G5 cores at 2.5(?)ghz, 2 512 GB SSD’s and 16GB of RAM. There is literally no better way to experience the heights of the PPC Mac days. So cool.)
- simulate-me 4y agoI believe some people have written WASM networking using a WebRTC data channel as the transport.
- ivank 4y agohttps://github.com/tenox7/wrp https://github.com/tenox7/wrp WRP - Web Rendering Proxy
- lostgame 4y agoOh, wow; thanks for the link, this is very cute.
- drewzero1 4y agoNot specific to the HTTPS issue, but useful for older browsers on lower-powered machines: Youtube creator and classic mac community contributor Sean/Action Retro has been running a proxy called FrogFind[0]. The project uses the Firefox "reader view" algorithm to serve stripped-down web pages for older machines. It's great for G3 and older machines that expect the web to be a bit more 90s. It really reminds me of using Google in/around 1998-99. [0] http://frogfind.com http://frogfind.com