oldweb.today is a fascinating site.
Here's a link that opens Netscape Navigator on the Mac, circa 1999.
It opens the home page of Scripting News on October 4, 1999, as it looked then, thanks to archive.org. (That link takes you to my archived version of that page. The content is exactly the same, but my version has been rendered through a more modern template.)
The links work, they take you to places on the web as they were on that day.
Here's a screen shot in case it's hard to get through to the site. I imagine they have a bunch of virtual computers running those old browsers? It would be interesting to know how they do it.
"When the Netcapsule web page is loaded, the old browser is loaded in an emulator-like setup (Docker container) connecting to an existing archiving service through an HTTP/S proxy (powered by pywb software). The proxy configures the date/time setting and proxies the content from the archive in its original form (whenever possible)." Here's the source code: https://github.com/ikreymer/netcapsule
What struck me was the post at the top about Linux surpassing Sun and friends to establish a new foundation for the internet. So prescient!
