{"id":12661,"date":"2024-12-26T21:19:19","date_gmt":"2024-12-27T04:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=12661"},"modified":"2024-11-14T21:35:03","modified_gmt":"2024-11-15T04:35:03","slug":"browsing-the-internet-on-a-mac-plus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=12661","title":{"rendered":"Browsing the internet on a Mac Plus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@HunterIrving\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Hunter Irving<\/a>\u00a0picked up a 1986 Macintosh Plus and helped create\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/hunterirving\/macproxy_plus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">MacProxy Plus<\/a>, an open-source app that lets vintage Macs browse the modern web.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He uses a BlueSCSI device to <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/PiSCSI\/piscsi\/wiki\/Dayna-Port-SCSI-Link\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/github.com\/PiSCSI\/piscsi\/wiki\/Dayna-Port-SCSI-Link\">emulate a rare mac ethernet adapter<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/goughlui.com\/2013\/07\/28\/tech-flashback-daynaport-scsilink-t\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/goughlui.com\/2013\/07\/28\/tech-flashback-daynaport-scsilink-t\/\">Daynaport SCSI\/Link-T<\/a>) and a <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/tghw\/macproxy\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/github.com\/tghw\/macproxy\">Macproxy <\/a>to convert modern web pages to something 90&#8217;s era html only browsers can display. He improved Macproxy to have modular components with custom handling for specific websites. Thus, <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/hunterirving\/macproxy_plus\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/github.com\/hunterirving\/macproxy_plus\">MacProxy Plus<\/a>. He used <a href=\"https:\/\/claude.ai\/login?returnTo=%2F%3F\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/claude.ai\/login?returnTo=%2F%3F\">claude.ai<\/a> to help write some of the proxy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He then went on to handle images &#8211; and video &#8211; using dithering and generated ASCII art.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/f1v1gWLHcOk?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Links:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>BlueSCSI v2 Pico-W: <a href=\"https:\/\/bluescsi.com\/v2\">https:\/\/bluescsi.com\/v2<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Github: <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/hunterirving\/macproxy_plus\">https:\/\/github.com\/hunterirving\/macproxy_plus<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Follow author at Gobbler ( <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?event=video_description&amp;redir_token=QUFFLUhqbE4tLTFqVGc3cEk4OWdIVjNubnI2WTM3RDZGZ3xBQ3Jtc0tuUUVOU3piNG50c3FfcWhUTWRjcURCTWV0aG5TNWxuUDJIbTBtN2tnZFRmSVVvNU5xSlhOa01SVFlZbkhYZy1neGxaSlRuc2M3ZTFNN2doV01feGRpeGFHUU5aaExmQU1la29SSFVTRzlVcEFGekJxaw&amp;q=https%3A%2F%2Fhunterirving.com%2Fgobbler&amp;v=f1v1gWLHcOk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/hunterirving.com\/gobbler<\/a> ) and Huntergram ( <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?event=video_description&amp;redir_token=QUFFLUhqbnNLVzlFU0VqWXhNUHJ5bUdBeHVxZmV5c0NRd3xBQ3Jtc0tsN3R2amFCVEN0UC1EaU42eTRsdTU3VzJxVmQ5VGNseHc0VTh4bjFYQm9GVGhRVlJHX0x5OXB3ZzBnLWtOM1ZLZjYtLUJjNWNXRU1KdnRWYzFNSDBxek41eC1MZ3RRRFhQRmhiS0hrQWtoeTg0dVBpMA&amp;q=https%3A%2F%2Fhunterirving.com%2Fhuntergram&amp;v=f1v1gWLHcOk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/hunterirving.com\/huntergram<\/a> ).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hunter Irving\u00a0picked up a 1986 Macintosh Plus and helped create\u00a0MacProxy Plus, an open-source app that lets vintage Macs browse the modern web.\u00a0 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&#8217;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. 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