Protoweb - Reviving the '90s Internet! (Overview & Demo)

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Today we're exploring Protoweb - a web restoration project with a goal of bringing old '90s-era websites back to working order!
Protoweb: protoweb.org
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@zapatastudios3756 Год назад

Hello!!! I’m one of the people that’s helped restore sites for protoweb. Thank you so much for checking it out!!!!

@ryuunosuk3 Год назад

You, sir, are a legend.

@zapatastudios3756 Год назад

@@ryuunosuk3 I don’t personally think i am, but still thank you so much!!!

@ollimorp Год назад

Thanks buddy

@UncleUncleRj Год назад

That's cool. How exactly is this done?

@zapatastudios3756 Год назад

@@UncleUncleRjsorry for the late answer lol, but basically how it works is that all of the sites are individually pulled from the wayback, and then restored one by one, fixing images, links and downloads

@frozyre7854 Год назад

I have a soft spot for old web advertisements. They were entertaining and not as predatory as current day web advertisements. And yes I am aware of popups, I don't miss those.

@CayenneGaramonde Год назад

Succesfully punch three moving monkeys to win a free college degree!

@trashyraccoon2615 Год назад

Pop ups are still everywhere, especially on Mobile

@trashyraccoon2615 Год назад

Bonzi Buddy has entered the chat

@MINI_91 Год назад

The retro community is the gift that keeps on giving. To the mad lads doing this, seriously, thank you!

@tomyyoung2624 Год назад

Yes tested

@nicolasportela5513 3 месяца назад

Old internet browsers and websites have a unique charm, it's not just nostalgia more so a sense of personality and creativity that you don't see often in modern internet, where everything is flat and corporate.

@Atsumari Год назад

This is a wonderful project. I am the President of a nonprofit that works to archive and support writing groups. Seeing web archival expand further and grow. I love these sorts of projects. Thanks MJD for showcasing it.

@kaitlyn__L Год назад

Okay, the weather and radio stuff is pretty cool. I actually prefer that UX for the web radio selection over modern sites so… dang

@gosnooky Год назад

What? You mean you don't like having to download an 8MB Javascript bundle just to view the weather?

@crescentfresh8001 Год назад

This is *awesome*. The more completely we can archive the old net, the better.

@brodriguez11000 Год назад

Flash! Flash! Flash!

@crescentfresh8001 Год назад

@@brodriguez11000 Have you tried Flashpoint Infinity? They've archived a ton of Flash games, and you can play them offline.

@jackedup447 Год назад

@@crescentfresh8001 As much as I love flashpoint infinity, it will never recreate going to some sketchy sleazy ass website like Free Online Games and make my computer obtain 30 STDs just from loading a flash game.

@Big.Joe.Grizzly Год назад

@@jackedup447coolmathgames newsgrounds

@jackedup447 Год назад

@@Big.Joe.Grizzly Exactly. or like addictinggames or maxgames or some shit lmao.

@TDGalea Год назад

This is an absolute dream. all it needs now, for me at least, is a way to set the date so that we could replicate this setup for the early-mid 2Ks on XP/Vista machines. _That_ would kill me off with a flood of nostalgia. But with them having to manually restore all of this, I absolutely do not blame them for sticking to a single date region!

@flynick Год назад

No, it's not been long enough, 90's internet was horrible..a very recent memory

@XwaD666 Год назад

Ah yes, the pop up porn ads era.

@TDGalea Год назад

@@XwaD666 Damn straight, I'm still wondering where all those hot singles in my area are.

@n646n Год назад

@@flynick It's over 33 years.

@RJARRRPCGP 5 месяцев назад

@@XwaD666 The '00s were well known for that, especially 2001-2005!

@SidewaysCytlan Год назад

I have the source code for a social media website from 2000-2001. It was made by a chewing gum company that's now long gone. Could be fun to restore and bring that back! It had profiles (with HTML enabled. Lot's of marquees there!), posts, direct messages, journal, a weekly joke contest, a score system where the more active you were the higher up in the "Bite Tower" you "lived." Unfortunately the database has been lost to time, but it can be reconstructed from the ASP sources.

@pistolpetereal Год назад

Interesting

@thegmack1019 Год назад

Upload it please

@n646n Год назад

Please upload.

@barracadoseuze4213 Год назад

Upload it

@kantraa Год назад

please upload it

@loadgamepl Год назад

Your visuals are so pleasing to look at. That pristine Dell and awesome floppy disk wall! Awesome job!

@readybear64 Год назад

Agreed

@saged1513 Год назад

If there's a way to spread this, get people back into old forums and stuff, it would be so nice to be able to mostly switch over and just get rid of modern sites as much as possible. It seems so peaceful to just have what you want to find without all the agressive noise of the modern day internet...

@AJ-po6up Год назад

Oh man I want this, this needs to happen, we need to recreate what was like being online in those days in its entirety including how social interactions were back in the day, it would be cool if everyone in those forums acted like it was still 1998. It would be the perfect way to escape the horrendous modern Internet.

@Seacat17 Год назад

Hey, I know at least 3 still alive forums like that. One of them works since 1995.

@CZghost Год назад

@@AJ-po6up Oh man, bring back the old ICQ, that was fun! :D

@mylittleparody2277 Год назад

You know too well that the quality of the internet is driven by it's content, and thus, it's creators. Switching back to old tech won't make it good if it's the same people that use it...

@thegmack1019 Год назад

Took the words right out of my mouth. This project needs to be expanded and safeguarded from corporate intervention.

@MoonSarito Год назад

Would be pretty cool to see this running on a old console browser like the Dreamcast.

@saltedmutton7269 Год назад

yesterweb works on WebTV, which isn't a console but it's definitely not a PC

@repoversemedium Год назад

I wonder what browsers would be supported.

@Seb_sequer 17 дней назад

I share that same opinion, it would be a dream. Believe me, my friend, one day it will be possible.

@keithk9472 Год назад

Just the other day, I was thinking the Web of the 90s was so much easier and simpler to what we have now. Hardly any advertising! Compared to the nagging pop ups and video ads that follow you, whilst scrolling up and down a page. I was feeling quite nostalgic. Now, coincidently, I see this video in my RU-vid feed. Thank you for sharing it I'll be checking out Protoweb ASAP.

@vylbird8014 8 месяцев назад

Oh, it had popups. So so many popups. And pop-unders, which were even worse. That's the reason browsers today don't let web pages open a new window so easily.

@compteprivefr 7 месяцев назад

"Hardly any advertising"?!?!?? it was the dark ages of abundant pop-ups that would crash your browser and computer. And there was no ad-block back then it was hell.

@vylbird8014 7 месяцев назад

@@compteprivefr Different advertising. Annoying, certainly - but it was just shouty-annoying, doing whatever it took to get your attention because the ads were so vaguely targetted. It took years to set up the infrastructure and design the algorithms needed for the all-pervasive tracking and profiling that advertising depends upon today.

@compteprivefr 7 месяцев назад

@@vylbird8014 Oh but I much prefer the ads we have today. Less obnoxious and more "smart". I actually see ads for things I like once in a while.

@SatelliteEnthusiast Год назад

Be nice to see the 2000s internet imo

@SatelliteEnthusiast Год назад

@@Sicbay138 exactly

@dsouth7754 Год назад

Can't wait to try this on my G3. I had a similar setup with a raspberry pi as the reverse proxy but the advantage there was that I could set the preferred year. For my part, I'm more into the 2001-2006 era of the web but that doesn't mean this isn't an awesome diversion. To really relive that mid-90s internet, there really needs to be a proper NNTP archive for newsgroups that retains further back than what most active usenet services do. The UsenetArchives are pretty comprehensive, but I wish he'd implement a way to access it through a mail client.

@broklee Год назад

This is awesome. I have been thinking of making something similar, but this project is even more impressive with the live updates for the weather and Runescape. This is basically a classic WoW server for the internet. This is awesome for those of us who want to experience the web without all of the distractions that come with modern day internet.

@nick.p.9328 Год назад

The amount of work I can imagine they put into that is impressive. Love to see it develop.

@NudlArm Год назад

This is what we've been missing for truly browsing archived websites. It's like that missing piece that makes it actually work, it's really impressive

@greenknight9000 Год назад

This is incredible! I'd honestly love to see a website that sort of mirrors RU-vid videos onto a website built for old web-browsers. It'd be pretty neat!

@EmberwolfXR Год назад

Basically, this is a game changer because I’m the type of person where I can just listen to the radio all night and I’ve got tons of vintage computers so I can just run my good old windows 98 computer and listen to the radio on winampand I’m absolutely happy with that😅

@EmberwolfXR Год назад

Plus, this should work really well with that copy of Windows XP black that’s been floating around and then you can just have it dual boot windows 98 or 95

@keithbrown7685 Год назад

It has to be period-correct music imo.

@Gravarty Год назад

I would definitely test it if there were also German sites, because without them, the nostalgic feeling of revisiting sites from the early 2000s is simply missing (for me).

@trashyraccoon2615 Год назад

German Webzeits

@Noniksleft Год назад

The old internet experience seemed to be more often about finding new sites (in that it was common to see a set of links as a main link within the site) instead of sites doing everything to keep you on the platform. I remember finding many interesting sites via the links page. Usually on small sites

@toad3355 Год назад

When I hear that “Hello everybody and welcome back to another video”, I know this is gonna be a good time.

@ElGordo2497 Год назад

This is so relaxing to watch for some reason. Brings me back to simpler times I guess.

@gwgux Год назад

Wow, I'm amazed they went that far! That far exceeds my expectations!

@xXBlueSheepXx Год назад

I love the floppy disk wall you have as a background.

@G.K._Workshop101 4 месяца назад

I absolutely love how it restores the actual browsing experience of that time period, where links actually work, you can search the 90’s google or yahoo and get time appropriate results. It’s not just individual webpage screenshots that you have to manually find the exact link to and put it into an archive website and manually put in the date, and links don’t work, you can’t use search browsers, blah blah blah.

@didiervandendaele4036 Год назад

Protoweb project is not only allowing to restore old websites but also we can now create new retro websites as we already create retro games ! 😅😊

@jeremyfield4148 Год назад

Thank you so much for posting this video, and thank you to these developers. This is exactly what I have been looking for so I can use my vintage computers like back in the day. I still need to try a actual modem for more nostalgia but this is AWESOME

@iulianarianofficial Год назад

13:48 I like how radio stations from my country have been show (Romania)!

@j.w.techchannel Год назад

This is a very exciting project. I'm glad there are people actively working on this, very awesome 👍 and great video as always!

@DavidWonn Год назад

Nice. They're really recreating the feel of the 1990s Internet, perhaps minus the busy signals!

@zhangtthew Год назад

i love this. it fills me with joy to know that against all the odds, there is people working hard to preserve and archive the contents of the internet we love

@FranciscoSelma Год назад

Dude! This is so cool!! I'm going to try it on my Windows 98 PC! I'm always careful with what I try in it when it comes to Internet access as I don't want to get malware or anything like that, but this seems really safe and cool!

@gilly5809 Год назад

I love the floppy disk wall.

@natalieeuley1734 Год назад

The best part about this is you can basically guarantee that anything you visit on this browser is safe. I mean, it's fake obviously, but using an old computer on the internet is almost always just a pure security risk. I like that this takes all that away because every site you visit has to be hosted by them to show up

@matyasgyurko8809 Год назад

So IS it really safe? Serious question, because I'm about to put a W98 computer in my infra with this cool Internet browsing method, but I don't want to destroy my other machines.

@computerkid1416 Год назад

I'm now optimistic that, in the not too far future, we'll be able to navigate the web exactly as it was back then.

@ryuunosuk3 Год назад

Ah, the good ol' days of skeumorphic design. They just don't make user interfaces like they used to anymore... Thanks Protoweb, for showing us the old web again.

@The-Richmond Год назад

I have a 2TB Archive of Geo Cities from then. Loads of nostalgic content.

@spoonikle Год назад

This will be the best exhibit at any museum. Just have an few dozen iMac proxied through this. We can show the kids what it was like.

@Mcbuzzerr 10 месяцев назад

I love how excited retro internet/tech fans get about checking the weather on their retro devices lol I was just as excited to do that on my modded wii. this video was so fun!

@jugularzeus1157 Год назад

love this channel full of information and fun facts and brings memory back

@_mikut Год назад

This project is awesome! I just tried the Protoweb browser and it's really like I just went back in time, they've done a great job at restoring the older versions of websites and making them functional. I really hope they also restore websites from the 2000s eventually, as that is what I grew up with. It'd be the ultimate nostalgic experience for me!

@ВиталийБойко-з5й Год назад

2:25 - I could actually set a wirespeed limit to less than a megabit within the router itself, haha :D Definitely some nostalgic memories kick in

@peter5.056 2 месяца назад

One thing that I remember all too well is, the internet before video was commonplace. There were tons of images, and VERY few videos, and practically no streaming videos. Most videos were short and low resolution. Social media as we know it didn't exist. Images took a few seconds to load in low resolution, and minutes for high resolution images. I remember needing to leave the room and go make a sandwich, while a high resolution satellite loop loaded. It was remarkable how slow the internet was. About 1/20,000 the speed we have today.

@FerreroMan Год назад

I love when Michael MJD uses that song at the beginning, I feel like is the main music theme of this channel

@Kazordoon Год назад

To make it look even more ancient, they should include the Archie and Veronica search engines!

@terminallygray Год назад

Woah ! what about WebCrawler ??

@MrLion626 10 месяцев назад

Thank you so much for this video, Mike! I installed my .NET frame-work, got ProtoWeb working, and installed Winamp to listen to some Big Band-era music live on my Windows 98 computer. Ahh, life is good.

@stephensalex Год назад

This is SO COOL! Also @LGR we have a Cool Crab sighting!

@TheY2KExperiment Год назад

This is so cool exactly what I needed for a challenge I’m trying to do. Would be so cool if they got RU-vid to work

@EmberwolfXR Год назад

When I was a kid back in the early 2000s I went with my dad to the Charles Schwab headquarters and all the employees had streaming video on their computers of the current Stocks and I thought that was so cool. I’m pretty sure the station that they had on was Bloomberg but it was streaming through real player

@oldbay420 Год назад

In other news, you just got me into Halt and Catch Fire, can't put it down now, thanks Michael!

@chrisdigitalartist Год назад

Looks like this may be the way to go for sites in the early 2000s that require flash.

@vinceontheweb Год назад

12:44 WOOO BUFFALO MENTIONED LETS GOO

@EvilTurkeySlices Год назад

This is so freaking cool! This is what I wanted for a long time. Hope they make a mid-2000 version with the newer version of RuneScape(the one I played)

@richardhaines7175 6 месяцев назад

Very cool! I’ve been using it on virtual machines - from Windows 98, NT 3.51 and Windows 3.1. Can’t wait to get an old Compaq 486 and set it up specifically to use this!

@erikhicks07 Год назад

The scrolling marquees really brought me back in time

@thatonefoxxy Год назад

What if instead of focusing on getting the old websites running again we develop a protocol which bridges HTTPS and HTML5/CSS back to the old standards by making custom drivers or software for Win95,98,2000, etc.

@xythrr Год назад

I mean, it already kinda exists. Both with stuff like MyPal, PaleMoon, and other things like KernelEX.

@datravman Год назад

yes please

@wileysneak Год назад

i wrote a script to screenshot using puppeteer and then replace link locations with area tags. it kinda worked, but used loads of bandwidth so was only applicable over lan

@thatonefoxxy Год назад

@@xythrr it doesn't really work that good tho for my opinion

@thatonefoxxy Год назад

@@wileysneak i was thinking more of a native protocol using http or sth using less bandwidth and making it work as native as possible without extra "carrier devices"

@tilde-tech Год назад

Is something I’ve always wanted to create. But didn’t have the know how, Created a functioning geocities clone instead. Great video. Thanks for letting me know about this site :)

@TheawesomeMCB Год назад

You know it's a good day when MJD uploads

@mylittleparody2277 Год назад

Sweet project! Thanks for giving visibility in this nice video

@fogdoggy45vlogs Год назад

I got it working on my Windows ME VM and on my Windows XP VM! Very cool! Reminds me of the early 90s...

@FoxerTails Год назад

Oh man, the nostalgia is real with this one. This project definitely looks like a massive undertaking but I think it will be worth it.

@lilwyvern4 Год назад

Man, everything is so clean. None of that javascript clutter. No worries about what some social media site is trying to farm from my browser data. No hypercorporatization, trying to squeeze as many ads onto a page as possible because fuck usability, money is the only concern. I'm letting my Gen Y show, but seeing it in action again just feels like seeing what the Internet is supposed to work like.

@Joe3D Год назад

Web devs don't care about webs preservation they basically continuously overwrite the source code hence losing all versioning.

@korbenbutterworth3479 5 месяцев назад

At least at my company we use version control and have done since the sites creation you can always go back but it makes no sense to publish our older site versions as they won’t work on modern browsers well and it would confuse the customers

@samglezgo Год назад

It works perfectly on Windows 8 Developer Preview!!! I love it!!!!!!

@user-gf3mu5uc8j Год назад

As as avid user of the wayback machine this is so cool. What a great project!

@waterbears9874 Год назад

i really hope someday we can get something similar for the 2000s internet, theres a lot of stuff id love to experience that way

@philtkaswahl2124 Год назад

I used Protoweb, and suddenly my rig spontaneously turned beige and the monitor became a CRT box.

@maxe-200 Год назад

The best channel

@RampantLeaf Год назад

I love the wallpaper on your computer

@DeadlySIlence92 Год назад

72°, man that's hot - melts in celsius

@RockyBergen Год назад

Keep us posted!

@ksvlk2022 Год назад

Thanks for recommending Halt and Catch Fire! People really need to watch this show if they're into old tech, and the sound track is awesome!

@BlackCatRedScarf Год назад

Wooooow Shoutcast! I had a lot of fun with that! :D I used that to stream music to listen with my friends at same time.

@RetroGamingNook Год назад

Thanks! I am using my old win95 disc installed on Virtualbox and browsing like the old days again... Groovy!

@wisteela Год назад

Absolutely awesome. Superb for old computers.

@eugiblisscast Год назад

I need to try this ❤❤❤

@owenwexler7214 Год назад

11:52 "Siri, how long ago was 19,554 days ago" "It was January 12, 1970"

@ajplays-gamesandmusic4568 Год назад

Wait, was "Comet" a nod to " Halt and Catch Fire"? haha 6:55 answered my question... that's great.

@susiesan Год назад

I love how they have Halleys Comet logo from Halt and Catch Fire :D

@SonicBoone56 8 месяцев назад

This is so darn cool.

@AdiBSPL Год назад

Bruh 1Mb/s was my internet speed whole life but recently I got an upgrade and now its 300 Mbit/s

@juniorsilvabroadcast Год назад

I've used to have 300kbps until 2016 then upgraded to 5mbps. Today I'm at 600mbps. Used to have 1gbps in 2022

@wertywerrtyson5529 Год назад

This is so much nostalgia.

@Clarity_OSRS Год назад

Thanks for randomly showing off that Runescape site! I had an account somewhere but I couldn't remember the site. It happened to be in this video!

@chadbuck888 Год назад

He's the best youtuber

@maureen-hm4in Год назад

Yay a new video from the legend! ❤️

@chadbuck888 Год назад

I love mjd

@kusucks991 Год назад

Nice, I like the Comet reference. I also love that show and noticed it before you even said anything! :D

@marquesdlr Год назад

Wow this is amazing. Tried this morning in one of my Pentium pcs and worked like a charm, this even redirects the shortcut on the Windows 98 blue wallpaper that shows when activating Active Desktop to the original Win98 page! xD