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[UNMAINTAINED] Browservice: Browse the modern web on historical browsers
12 mentions on Hacker News by 9 people: 2 stories, 10 comments · first 2020-06-21 · latest 2026-07-08
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…this out. Otherwise, I can only use the last release of tenfourfox on my g4 but only through the https://github.com/ttalvitie/browservice proxy running on another machine.
comment by steve-atx-7600 · 2026-07-08 · in MacSurf 1.68 – NetSurf on OS 9 Released -
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Browservice: Browser as a Servicestory by not_a_boat · 2024-12-19 · 0 comments
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…javascript. It works in virtually all "old" browsers and can be very useful for older computers. https://github.com/ttalvitie/browservice For very old web browsers, WRP works similarly but replaces the javascript with an imagemap.…
comment by LeoPanthera · 2023-02-06 · in If you're happy with OpenBSD, probably any computer is good enough -
…to the rescue if you have a bigger machine available and only need more independent terminals: https://github.com/ttalvitie/browservice Also rdp/freenx/x2go/vnc can help. That doesn't make the old computer a full independent desktop but it…
comment by prmoustache · 2022-07-05 · in Tiny Core Linux 13.0 is a full Linux desktop in 22 MB -
…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 -
Like Browservice? https://github.com/ttalvitie/browservice
comment by tayiorrobinson · 2021-08-01 · in Show HN: Viewfinder – Virtualized browsers for your web app -
Reminds me of Browservice: https://github.com/ttalvitie/browservice/ (which I discovered via Michael MJD's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MjZdKtv9ak )
comment by Tijdreiziger · 2021-05-17 · in Show HN: Free open-source isolated browser for security -
Try browservice: https://github.com/ttalvitie/browservice
comment by chungy · 2021-03-29 · in 68k.news: A Netscape 1.1 makeover of Google News -
For a more modern (but still old) machine, Browservice might be of help: - https://github.com/ttalvitie/browservice - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23595430
comment by rzzzt · 2021-01-14 · in Ask HN: Oldest piece of hardware a user could access the internet with? -
…browser, using a modern counterpart as its proxy (although using it might feel like cheating): - https://github.com/ttalvitie/browservice - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23595430
comment by rzzzt · 2020-11-01 · in Web based Windows XP desktop recreation, built with React -
…the name, though (and it's also hard to search for). edit: browser history to the rescue, it's https://github.com/ttalvitie/browservice
comment by rzzzt · 2020-07-29 · in 1991 Macintosh Quadra with Mac OS 8.1 as an Electron App -
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Show HN: Browservice – Browse the modern web on historical browsersstory by ttalvitie · 2020-06-21 · 31 comments