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First post, by jheronimus

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Hi everybody

Just tried oldweb.today and it seems to work beautifully, which made me think: can I just emulate old Web for a Win 95 machine? E.g., make a sort of a proxy out of another computer or (preferably) Raspberry Pi and whenever I go to http://www.example.com in Netscape 4, I get its 90s whatever version.

Now, oldweb.today seems to use pywb library to browse the wayback machine, but it seems to only be tailored for using your own archives. Could I somehow just browse archive.org? Has anyone tried to do anything like that?

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Reply 1 of 3, by King_Corduroy

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That would be AWESOME! I would fucking love it if you figured out how to do that. 🤣
What's the time left thing? Does it limit how long you can use it?

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Reply 2 of 3, by leileilol

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I've wanted something like an wayback proxy too that simulates a limited connection speed while also stripping the invasive injected wayback jscripts/frames and sticking to a strict timeline - for actual vintage web browsing on

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Reply 3 of 3, by RepoOne

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I don't have the time to mess with it right now, but I came across the following docker build that looks promising:
https://hub.docker.com/r/ikreymer/pywb-proxy-wayback/

From the looks of it, this allows you to use pywb as a proxy for the Wayback Machine.
I'm going to try and see if I can get it working for myself later tonight.

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