Comment by jstanley
3 years ago
It's cool that it loads every page through a proxy that strips out most of the extraneous nonsense. I was expecting the search results page to be "vintage" appropriate, but then every subsequent page to just be normal.
That said, I don't know that I'd call any computer running a web browser "vintage".
Contiki on an Apple II is not vintage for you?
TRS-80 Model 100 → Telnet to a MacBook → Lynx to the web.
Surfing the web at 600 baud. That's how we roll all up in here.
I tried to do the same with my TRS-80 CoCo, but couldn't log in because the CoCo can't do lowercase letters. One of these days I should make an all-caps user with a couple of command aliases and try again. The same setup works well with my WYSE dumb terminal and Macintosh Classic, though the Classic should be able to handle some graphical browsing as well.
lol. i was doing the same thing except it was a linux middlebox.
and if you've found any pages that render decently in lynx, you can add them to bobcat:
https://ohmeadhbh.github.io/bobcat/
I'm able to browse many traditionl http sites with my 8088 with 640k RAM