Harken back to the late 1990s with this re-creation of the dialup Internet experience

Biomedical engineer Gough Liu likes to tinker with tech—particularly vintage tech—and decided he'd try to recreate what it was like to connect to the Internet via dialup back in the late 1990s. So Liu uses a miniProxy, which connects to the site in https, downloads the content, and sends it back to Liu's computer with all the links rewritten so they can go through the proxy.It takes a while to download a sample page from Slashdot, as the status bar at the bottom helpfully provides updates on our progress. "Web browsing technology has advanced quite dramatically over the years, and same with the html standards; things like CSS and certain sorts of Javascript were not around at the time that Navigator was, so the site loads up, but it looks very different from how you would experience it today in a modern browser," Liu says.The rest of the journey includes a visit to the Australian Government Bureau of Meteorology (which still uses http), google.com, Wikipedia, xkcd ("we will be waiting a while for this comic"), and others, with everything loading in real time.