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

https://github.com/hunterirving/macproxy_plus
> 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.

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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> 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.

Honestly this sounds like a pretty great way to experience the modern web on modern computers too.

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Was great to see the video[0] you did (and production quality, humor, etc) showcasing MacProxy Plus. As the BlueSCSI maintainer it's always exciting to see it being used the wild in cool new things like this!

[0] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1v1gWLHcOk

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Oh this looks perfect! I kind of intended to make something like this, but now I don't have to. Looking forward to replacing my macproxy with this to try it out :)
Thanks for checking it out! Hope it works out well for you.
Really nice work. I like the idea of site-specific extensions, and think that's the only way to do this and keep your sanity.

This seems like it'd pair really well with FrogFind.

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I wonder if this will work with a Newton?
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How do you configure System 6 or 7 to use a proxy?
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It's been a while, but from what I recall with early Macs apps like mail clients and browsers would have their own proxy settings rather than any system-wide setting, so you'd set the proxy in Netscape (or whatever).
Oh wow I saw this on reddit the other day. Now to find an affordable vintage mac.
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