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If you set your HTTP proxy to "theoldnet.com" with port 1999, and add an exclusion for "web.archive.org", then all your web pages will come from 1999, via the W

If you set your HTTP proxy to "theoldnet.com" with port 1999, and add an exclusion for "web.archive.org", then all your web pages will come from 1999, via the Wayback Machine. You can pick a different year by changing the port. Edit: It may have been hugged to death...

dylan604 3y ago
i love the creativity people come up with for such novel things
- quaffapint 3y ago
  Similarly check out https://protoweb.org/about/ https://protoweb.org/about/. They dont have every site, but they also include a fun 'antique' youtube where you get to stream with Real player or windows media player to bring back the 'greatness' of those products.
  - dylan604 3y ago
    i'm excited to see if they properly recreated the "Buffering..."
  - ahoka 3y ago
    Works nice in IE6, thanks!
brassattax 3y ago
I like https://oldweb.today https://oldweb.today ... actually emulates old OS/browser combinations and proxies stuff from archive.org
- al_borland 3y ago
  This really captures how slow the web, and everything else, was back then.
  - Gud 3y ago
    Not necessarily. I was living in Stockholm and had a 10/10Mbit connection. Not too bad for a 15 year old kid.
- epcoa 3y ago
  I never get over the weird feeling seeing something like Windows 95 which was released with such spectacle, Jay Leno and millions of dollars in launch events, requiring the latest available PC equipment to boot the same day, and of course the looming threat of the SPA sending you to PMITA prison if you didn’t pay your $209.95 being reduced to a small square on my mobile phone still running faster through a million layers of framework. Seemed like serious shit at the time.
  - dirtyhippiefree 3y ago
    SPA (Software Publishers Association…and RIAA lawsuits…
    - xerox13ster 3y ago
      It's so funny to see the SPA and RIAA being mentioned in the same context as PMITA prison because I just told my friend yesterday that if I ever released the software I actually want to build, that the RIAA and WMG would PMITA in court without so much as spitting on me in disgust before starting.
  - 83457 3y ago
    https://youtu.be/13bs7oz4wp8?si=lx58N7UsdTXOD8D1 https://youtu.be/13bs7oz4wp8?si=lx58N7UsdTXOD8D1
  - SllX 3y ago
    Unfortunately it’s still Windows 95. Not trying to be a hater, but I did recently install a Windows 95 VM on my Mac to relive that old experience… and then the very first error alert sound, that incredibly tinny really loud annoying sound that would always make me jump out of my chair with crappy PC speakers came blasting out of my much much better speakers backed by a subwoofer and I realized there is no nostalgia value to be had here. I liked what I had at the time when it was all that I had but I would never want to completely relive that experience. If I got sent back in time to the day Windows 95 launched and had to live the rest of my life from that point on, I honestly don’t know if I would want to touch another computer until like early 1999, maybe late 1998 at the earliest, and only for work.
- AlienRobot 3y ago
  Nothing quite says Moore's law like putting the web in a website.
willcipriano 3y ago
In a few decades or so I could see setting that up for a nursing home so the residents could relive their youth. Might also be good for a young kids pc.
- drewcoo 3y ago
  Useful for dementia patients.
1vuio0pswjnm7 3y ago
Does his proxy send x-forwarded-for header
jart 3y ago
See also https://olduse.net/ https://olduse.net/ for a 42 year delay on USENET. All I had to do was put this in my ~/.emacs file: (setq gnus-select-method '(nntp "olduse.net" (nntp-port-number 11942))) Then I typed `M-x gnus` and used the `^` key to see a listing of newsgroups.
kwelstr 3y ago
Yay! My old web page is there :O https://theoldnet.com/get?url=www.shadow.net%2F%7Egiorgio%2F&year=1998&scripts=false&decode=false https://theoldnet.com/get?url=www.shadow.net%2F%7Egiorgio%2F...
- Brajeshwar 3y ago
  Awesome. Mine too. I was starting out https://theoldnet.com/get?url=brajeshwar.com https://theoldnet.com/get?url=brajeshwar.com
- wkjagt 3y ago
  I miss this web :(
dehrmann 3y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20000407061146/http://www.x.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/20000407061146/http://www.x.com/

dylan604 3y ago

i love the creativity people come up with for such novel things

quaffapint 3y ago
Similarly check out https://protoweb.org/about/ https://protoweb.org/about/. They dont have every site, but they also include a fun 'antique' youtube where you get to stream with Real player or windows media player to bring back the 'greatness' of those products.
- dylan604 3y ago
  i'm excited to see if they properly recreated the "Buffering..."
- ahoka 3y ago
  Works nice in IE6, thanks!

brassattax 3y ago

I like https://oldweb.today https://oldweb.today ... actually emulates old OS/browser combinations and proxies stuff from archive.org

al_borland 3y ago
This really captures how slow the web, and everything else, was back then.
- Gud 3y ago
  Not necessarily. I was living in Stockholm and had a 10/10Mbit connection. Not too bad for a 15 year old kid.
epcoa 3y ago
I never get over the weird feeling seeing something like Windows 95 which was released with such spectacle, Jay Leno and millions of dollars in launch events, requiring the latest available PC equipment to boot the same day, and of course the looming threat of the SPA sending you to PMITA prison if you didn’t pay your $209.95 being reduced to a small square on my mobile phone still running faster through a million layers of framework. Seemed like serious shit at the time.
- dirtyhippiefree 3y ago
  SPA (Software Publishers Association…and RIAA lawsuits…
  - xerox13ster 3y ago
    It's so funny to see the SPA and RIAA being mentioned in the same context as PMITA prison because I just told my friend yesterday that if I ever released the software I actually want to build, that the RIAA and WMG would PMITA in court without so much as spitting on me in disgust before starting.
- 83457 3y ago
  https://youtu.be/13bs7oz4wp8?si=lx58N7UsdTXOD8D1 https://youtu.be/13bs7oz4wp8?si=lx58N7UsdTXOD8D1
- SllX 3y ago
  Unfortunately it’s still Windows 95. Not trying to be a hater, but I did recently install a Windows 95 VM on my Mac to relive that old experience… and then the very first error alert sound, that incredibly tinny really loud annoying sound that would always make me jump out of my chair with crappy PC speakers came blasting out of my much much better speakers backed by a subwoofer and I realized there is no nostalgia value to be had here. I liked what I had at the time when it was all that I had but I would never want to completely relive that experience. If I got sent back in time to the day Windows 95 launched and had to live the rest of my life from that point on, I honestly don’t know if I would want to touch another computer until like early 1999, maybe late 1998 at the earliest, and only for work.
AlienRobot 3y ago
Nothing quite says Moore's law like putting the web in a website.

willcipriano 3y ago

In a few decades or so I could see setting that up for a nursing home so the residents could relive their youth. Might also be good for a young kids pc.

drewcoo 3y ago
Useful for dementia patients.

1vuio0pswjnm7 3y ago

Does his proxy send x-forwarded-for header

jart 3y ago

See also https://olduse.net/ https://olduse.net/ for a 42 year delay on USENET. All I had to do was put this in my ~/.emacs file: (setq gnus-select-method '(nntp "olduse.net" (nntp-port-number 11942))) Then I typed `M-x gnus` and used the `^` key to see a listing of newsgroups.

kwelstr 3y ago

Yay! My old web page is there :O https://theoldnet.com/get?url=www.shadow.net%2F%7Egiorgio%2F&year=1998&scripts=false&decode=false https://theoldnet.com/get?url=www.shadow.net%2F%7Egiorgio%2F...

Brajeshwar 3y ago
Awesome. Mine too. I was starting out https://theoldnet.com/get?url=brajeshwar.com https://theoldnet.com/get?url=brajeshwar.com
wkjagt 3y ago
I miss this web :(

dehrmann 3y ago

https://web.archive.org/web/20000407061146/http://www.x.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/20000407061146/http://www.x.com/