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Show HN: MacProxy Plus – Surf the Modern Web on Vintage Computers

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69 points hunterirving | 2 comments | 15 Oct 24 12:39 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source

I created an enhanced fork of the popular MacProxy project called MacProxy Plus, which makes it possible to browse the modern web on vintage hardware. You run MPP on a machine on your local network and configure the Mac (or other vintage computer) to use it as a proxy server. MPP converts HTTPS to HTTP, strips out CSS, JavaScript, and other tags the Mac's browser doesn't recognize, then serves super-simplified HTML that actually loads pretty fast on the nearly 40 year old machine. Custom handling is enabled by "extensions" (individual python scripts) which intercept requests for given domains (like chatgpt.com) and return simple HTML interfaces. Current extensions include Weather, ChatGPT, Anthropic Claude, Wikipedia, Reddit, Hackaday, WayBack Machine, Web Simulator, and (not) YouTube. Though this solution was developed with early Macs in mind, it should also work to get many other vintage computers online.
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bsimpson ◴[15 Oct 24 18:10 UTC] No.41851336[source]▶
> Type a URL that doesn't exist into the address bar, and Anthropic's Claude 3.5 Sonnet will interpret the domain and any query parameters to generate an imagined version of that page on the fly. Each HTTP request is serialized and sent to the AI, along with the full HTML of the last 3 pages you visited, allowing you to explore a vast, interconnected, alternate reality Internet where the only limit is your imagination.

I want to try this.

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1. hunterirving ◴[15 Oct 24 18:35 UTC] No.41851658[source]▶
That feature was inspired by an existing website, https://websim.ai/ . Definitely worth checking out, and a lot more feature rich than the vintage Macintosh version.
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2. bsimpson ◴[15 Oct 24 19:08 UTC] No.41852026[source]▶
thanks!

i really don't like that it wants me to login with my google credentials just to play with it.