Show HN: Browse the modern web from ye olde' Macintosh

keepamovin | 3 points

This is meant to copy the look of System 6. It uses the system.css design system^0, and the Internet Explorer logo from Windows 98. The reason we use IE is because this was one of the first (the first?) browser shipped with Mac OS, but it didn't arrive until macOS 8 or so. So, this work can be considered historical fiction: there never was IE, or even a browser on System 6, which existed around 1991, the year of Terminator 2: Judgement Day.

System 6 was monochrome, so therefore is the web when viewed through. I don't know about you, but it's a really weird juxtaposition to see "modern web stuff", surrounded by olde style UI elements. Like lookin through a time portal from 1991 to the future that Sarah Connor ensured would exist. But maybe you had to be there.

0: https://sakofchit.github.io/system.css/

keepamovin | a month ago