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I got Netscape 1.12 working on an old Macintosh, and while it can't browse much by default, this[0] HTTP proxy makes the 'net much more accessible. I'm kind of

I got Netscape 1.12 working on an old Macintosh, and while it can't browse much by default, this[0] HTTP proxy makes the 'net much more accessible. I'm kind of surprised that proxies were supported so early in browsers, does anyone know why? Also, if you happen to design a website with Netscape 1 compatibility, and you want to replace SVG images with GIFs only for Netscape, you can use the <object> tag like this: <object class="banner" type="image/svg+xml" data="assets/banner.svg" role="img" width="487" height="180" style="pointer-events:none"> <center> <img src="assets/banner.gif" width="244" height="90" /> </center> </object> [0]: https://github.com/rdmark/macproxy https://github.com/rdmark/macproxy

marban 3y ago
Proxies — For Performance, I.e. local mirrors, security, private IP range in a corporate network, etc.
electroly 3y ago
Network Address Translation was invented the same year that Netscape Navigator was originally released, and it took years for it to become the de facto way to get a private local network onto the Internet. In the 90s I installed proxy servers at several small businesses in order to share a dialup connection to other PCs in the network.
- nineteen999 3y ago
  > In the 90s I installed proxy servers at several small businesses in order to share a dialup connection to other PCs in the network. If your customer was cheap and needed more bandwidth you could use EQL[0] to load-balance a PPP connection over multiple POTS/ISDN lines if your ISP supported multiple connections. I set this up for a number of businesses back then when office staff started arguing with each over who was using all the bandwidth from a single 28K modem. [0]https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/networking/eql.txt https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/networking/eql.txt

marban 3y ago

Proxies — For Performance, I.e. local mirrors, security, private IP range in a corporate network, etc.

electroly 3y ago

Network Address Translation was invented the same year that Netscape Navigator was originally released, and it took years for it to become the de facto way to get a private local network onto the Internet. In the 90s I installed proxy servers at several small businesses in order to share a dialup connection to other PCs in the network.

nineteen999 3y ago
> In the 90s I installed proxy servers at several small businesses in order to share a dialup connection to other PCs in the network. If your customer was cheap and needed more bandwidth you could use EQL[0] to load-balance a PPP connection over multiple POTS/ISDN lines if your ISP supported multiple connections. I set this up for a number of businesses back then when office staff started arguing with each over who was using all the bandwidth from a single 28K modem. [0]https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/networking/eql.txt https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/networking/eql.txt