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🕸 A frontend for the Wayback Machine which works on old browsers

Ruby 65.83% HTML 32.35% CSS 0.86% JavaScript 0.96%

internet-archive wayback-machine wayback 1990s 2000s cgi cgi-application ruby

wayback-classic's Introduction

Wayback Classic

A simple, CGI-based frontend for the Wayback Machine which works on old browsers without modern JavaScript or CSS support

The main instance of Wayback Classic is available at wayback-classic.net. It supports both HTTP and HTTPS.

Why

The Wayback Machine contains a lot of websites from the turn of the century which are perfect for browsing on older machines, but the interface the Wayback Machine itself presents is completely incompatible with many such systems, making it very difficult to navigate.

Wayback Classic attempts to provide a fully-functional frontend for the Wayback Machine, providing these systems with access without the extra technological requirements.

Notes

This is built on both the CDX API (for retrieving lists of page snapshots), as well as the undocumented __wb/search API used by the Wayback Machine's own frontend to handle site search and determine if a site exists in the archive. More info about the site search can be found in this blog post.

Development

A basic, WEBrick-based development server script is included at bin/dev-server. It defaults to localhost:8000, but the port can be overridden by setting a PORT environment variable.

Testing

While the root directory of this repository is intended to map directly to the root htdocs directory of a server, with no dependencies other than the Ruby standard library, a Gemfile is provided under the tests directory which contains dependencies for testing.

For testing purposes, the CGI scripts are loaded as Ruby modules instead of normal scripts, and their lifecycle is exercised by a minimal Rack application to facilitate the use of Capybara.

To run the test suite, open a terminal within the tests directory, and run bundle && bundle exec rake.

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Problems trying to download any file when using a Dreamcast Web browser

I'm having problems when trying to download any file through the wayback-classic website but this issue happens only when i use any Sega Dreamcast Web Browser because when i use Google Chrome even from my android phone i can download normally to my desktop without any problem whatsoever whatever file from the past that i want to. I tried various Dreamcast browsers even the latest version of the XDP web browser and it always fails when downloading any file no matter the date you choose. I don't know if i need to do something else to be able to download files directly to the Dreamcast VMU but i would like you to tell me please what steps should i follow in order to download for example a .VMU save file directly to the Dreamcast?. I attach here a screenshot so you can analize it and try to correct this issue.