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.

Testing can be perfomed either by configuring a full web server, or by using python3 -m http.server --cgi. Note that Python's http.server doesn't respect any redirects produced by CGI scripts.