Hunter Irving picked up a 1986 Macintosh Plus and helped create MacProxy Plus, an open-source app that lets vintage Macs browse the modern web. 

He uses a BlueSCSI device to emulate a rare mac ethernet adapter (Daynaport SCSI/Link-T) and a Macproxy to convert modern web pages to something 90’s era html only browsers can display. He improved Macproxy to have modular components with custom handling for specific websites. Thus, MacProxy Plus. He used claude.ai to help write some of the proxy.

He then went on to handle images – and video – using dithering and generated ASCII art.

Links:

• BlueSCSI v2 Pico-W: https://bluescsi.com/v2
• Github: https://github.com/hunterirving/macproxy_plus
• Follow author at Gobbler ( https://hunterirving.com/gobbler ) and Huntergram ( https://hunterirving.com/huntergram ).