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Web Rendering Proxy: Use vintage, historical, legacy browsers on modern web

24 mentions on Hacker News by 16 people: 4 stories, 20 comments · first 2019-06-05 · latest 2025-11-12

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  1. …dug at all.) The usual solution is to run the real browser somewhere else and remote into it, eg. https://github.com/tenox7/wrp or https://www.brow.sh/
    comment by yjftsjthsd-h · 2025-11-12 · in The PowerPC Has Still Got It (Llama on G4 Laptop)
  2. That exists:) https://github.com/tenox7/wrp
    comment by yjftsjthsd-h · 2025-05-29 · in The flip phone web: browsing with the original Opera Mini
  3. …machines. Also modern TLS tends to be a problem for these old machines. Maybe wrp might help: https://github.com/tenox7/wrp
    comment by mkesper · 2025-01-13 · in Mac Mini G4 – The best « classic » Macintosh for retro-gaming?
  4. …can also supports images/js by prerendering the page and serving and image map to the old browser: https://github.com/tenox7/wrp
    comment by gattilorenz · 2024-10-16 · in Show HN: MacProxy Plus – Surf the Modern Web on Vintage Computers
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    Web Rendering Proxy – Use historical browsers with the modern web
    story by gattilorenz · 2023-09-17 · 0 comments
  6. https://github.com/tenox7/wrp allows you to use modern js as well, as long as you can render images
    comment by gattilorenz · 2023-09-17 · in Browsing like it's 1994: Integrating a Mac SE, ImageWriter II into a modern LAN
  7. …this web rendering proxy [1] which turns webpages into imagemapped GIFs for use on old systems [1] https://github.com/tenox7/wrp
    comment by npunt · 2023-08-21 · in MacLynx beta 5: UTF-8, pull-down menus and more dialogue boxes
  8. …runs headless Chrome and renders pages to gif/png/jpg and shoves them back at a client browser. https://github.com/tenox7/wrp
    comment by kotaKat · 2023-07-31 · in The future of the web is VNC
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    WRP – Web Rendering Proxy
    story by Shank · 2023-02-12 · 0 comments
  10. …For very old web browsers, WRP works similarly but replaces the javascript with an imagemap. https://github.com/tenox7/wrp
    comment by LeoPanthera · 2023-02-06 · in If you're happy with OpenBSD, probably any computer is good enough
  11. This is basically what is done in the vintage computer world… https://github.com/tenox7/wrp
    comment by ireflect · 2022-06-05 · in Have an old iPad lying around? You might be able to make it run Linux soon
  12. https://github.com/tenox7/wrp WRP - Web Rendering Proxy
    comment by ivank · 2022-04-26 · in Infinite Mac
  13. With the Web Rendering Proxy ( https://github.com/tenox7/wrp ) you can also visit bing.com :)
    comment by gattilorenz · 2021-11-15 · in Show HN: Windows 2000 on Docker
  14. Would https://github.com/tenox7/wrp work with it?
    comment by yjftsjthsd-h · 2021-10-05 · in Time machine: Solaris 2.6 on QEMU
  15. You could use WRP, which renders web pages into giant imagemaps. https://github.com/tenox7/wrp There's also Browservice: https://github.com/ttalvitie/browservice
    comment by LeoPanthera · 2021-08-16 · in home.netscape.com in 1997
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    Web Rendering Proxy: Use vintage, historical, legacy browsers on the modern web
    story by spwhitton · 2021-07-12 · 1 comment
  17. …any modern websites on it (I think Browservice requires some js support on the client browser). https://github.com/tenox7/wrp
    comment by neurostimulant · 2021-03-21 · in Why use old computers and operating systems?
  18. …browsers. It should works on opera mini. Hopefully google won't block it outright. [0] https://github.com/tenox7/wrp
    comment by neurostimulant · 2020-11-22 · in Guidance to developers affected by effort to block less secure browsers, apps
  19. Or, better, this: https://github.com/tenox7/wrp The rendering/handling of JS is done on the RasPi, so almost everything should work
    comment by gattilorenz · 2020-08-16 · in Connecting a Macintosh SE to the Internet with a Raspberry Pi
  20. As the Readme notes, a similar project is the Web Rendering Proxy (WRP) - https://github.com/tenox7/wrp , however the two projects differ in their use (or lack of) JavaScript: > This idea of using a proxy to render the browser view into…
    comment by betamaxthetape · 2020-06-21 · in Show HN: Browservice – Browse the modern web on historical browsers
  21. …more about this. I've searched for https ==> http proxies before and didn't find much. I'm aware of https://github.com/tenox7/wrp but converting everything to a gif is quite a bit more destructive!
    comment by Wowfunhappy · 2020-05-10 · in Convincing-looking 90s fonts in modern browsers
  22. …similar, but it targets legacy browsers using clickable image maps rather than privacy/security. https://github.com/tenox7/wrp
    comment by ficklepickle · 2020-02-29 · in Are ad blockers doomed or have we already won? A history lesson
  23. For those wondering : https://github.com/tenox7/wrp
    comment by nailer · 2019-07-18 · in Gmail on NT 3.51 with IE 1.5 via WRP
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    WRP: Web Rendering Proxy
    story by Fudgel · 2019-06-05 · 0 comments