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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 Wayback Machine.

You can pick a different year by changing the port.

Edit: It may have been hugged to death...




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


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.


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.


Well that’s sort of on you for not using the correct MPC 2.0 compatible Labtec speakers!


Same. It was around that time I discovered Linux, and then the *BSDs. Before that, getting online required Trumpet Winsock. I did some tech support for an ISP up until 1998, so I had to know the stack, but rarely touched it myself. From the mid-2000s I moved to Apple, but only because I wanted a laptop with a unix command line and working bluetooth and that was _hard_ back then.

Just realised that means I've not owned a Windows machine - and barely touched one professionally or even much in my personal life - in almost 25 years now.



SPA (Software Publishers Association…and RIAA lawsuits…


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.


This really captures how slow the web, and everything else, was back then.


Not necessarily. I was living in Stockholm and had a 10/10Mbit connection. Not too bad for a 15 year old kid.


Nothing quite says Moore's law like putting the web in a website.


See also 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.


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


Similarly check out 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.


i'm excited to see if they properly recreated the "Buffering..."


Works nice in IE6, thanks!


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.


Useful for dementia patients.



Awesome. Mine too. I was starting out https://theoldnet.com/get?url=brajeshwar.com


I miss this web :(



Does his proxy send x-forwarded-for header




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