Sometimes you see almost that when css hasn’t loaded. Maybe you can turn off css in browser settings, site settings, or dev tools in the browser.
Does anyone know of a plug-in or extension that will make your web browser convert all websites into what they would look like in 1999?
Submitted 10 months ago by TehBamski@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Yaky@slrpnk.net 10 months ago
There’s FrogFind, search engine + converter/proxy for old machines. Runs via non-secure HTTP of course, which was standard in 1999.
Some sites have simple variants, such as
deleted@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I’ve been thinking about it lately since the current state of the internet is awful.
Unfortunately, none exist that I’m aware of. I found this plugin just now but I’ve not tried it yet: chromewebstore.google.com/detail/retroweb/
spiderhamster@lemmy.world 10 months ago
You could use the browser, Links, from the command line. Its my go to browser for looking up reasons why KDE wont load. Also nice for loading only text on a page.
lordnikon@lemmy.world 10 months ago
theoldnet.com
TehBamski@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Holy moly! This website is amazing. I wish it wasn’t hamstrung by Internet Archive’s rate limiting, though.
"The Internet Archive is rate limiting and then blocking this site due to increased usage. I have reached out to them. I also need to make some changes with this service to avoid hammering their API. Please check back after I’ve been able to get this fixed. "