The Steptail Wayback Proxy Server serves older (circa 90's) web browsers with pages from the era. It is the easiest way to browse the Internet as it was in 1996 through 1998.

You'll need a working Internet connection on your retro computer. This can be either with a direct network connection, or by using the Raspberry Pi Virtual Modem.

The server address at this moment is wayback.steptail.com and runs on the port 8080.

I will be running and testing the proxy server on various web browsers, so you'll know to expect that these work.

• Open Netscape Navigator 3.0
• Go to Options –> Network Preferences
• Open the tab Proxies

• Type in the proxy server address wayback.steptail.com under HTTP Proxy. Type in the port number 8080 under Port

• Click OK, then OK again to close out of the Network Preferences window.

• Open Netscape Navigator 4.0
• Go to Edit –> Preferences
• Under Advanced, open Proxies
• Select Manual proxy configuration and click on View.
• Select the first field and type in the server name of the wayback proxy (wayback.steptail.com) and the port 8080:

• Is tested and supported. Just no instructions yet :) Stay tuned.

• Not tested.

Questions? Comments? Contact Me!