MacSurf Hits 2.0 To Bring PowerPCs back Online

A quarter-century-old PowerPC Macintosh can browse the web again. Hackaday reports that MacSurf, a specialized browser for OS 9 machines, just reached version two, engineered to squeeze modern internet into systems with only megabytes of RAM. You won't reach YouTube or GitHub; both are too bloated for these vintage computers. But MacSurf does open forums like 68kMLA and retro sites like MacintoshGarden.org, now with faster image loading and a proper bookmark manager. Available free at MacSurf.org, it's a humbling reminder that sometimes the bottleneck isn't the hardware — it's the web.

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