oldbeige.net: archive.org proxy for vintage computers

[Rhetorica]

Saw this on Reddit today. Seemed like this was the best place to put it. Will add a link on the INDeX, also! A site that doesn't support HTTPS—truly, a web project after my own heart. 💜

In its creator's words:

OldBeige.net is a free download archive for vintage computers. It exists to solve a frustrating problem: most modern abandonware sites require HTTPS with TLS 1.2 or higher, which simply did not exist when Internet Explorer 4 or Netscape Navigator 4 were written. As a result, these vintage browsers cannot connect to the very sites that host software for the very machines they run on.

OldBeige.net acts as a friendly middleman. It runs on a modern server that can speak modern HTTPS to the Internet Archive, fetches what you ask for, and serves it back to your vintage browser over plain HTTP that any period-correct machine can handle.

Visit it directly at http://oldbeige.net

It will include NeXT software in its search results if you choose "all software" as the category.

Source (originally posted by u/zombienerd1 in r/retrocomputing)

[don_apple]

Alternatively you could also install https://github.com/hunterirving/macproxy_plus on a system in your local network, which, besides allowing you to access any site that uses https from old browsers that don't support https, has an extension for the Wayback machine and other modern web-tools.