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✨ Today I rebuilt 🏔️ AltaVista Search, the main search engine before Google existed
The problem: if you press the 🔍Search button in MSIE4 it'll open a sidebar with AltaVista in it that opens:
http:// home . microsoft . com/search/search.asp
But that URL doesn't resolve anymore of course, so how do I make this work?
I asked Claude Code and built a Dnsmasq DNS server that routes all regular DNS queries to Cloudflare but for home . microsoft . com it hijacks it and sends it to my own server
Then I let Nginx respond to that doamin and show the Altavista Search sidebar, I had to rebuild the design from a video on YouTube because I couldn't find any actual archeological remains of it anymore
Also Altavista Search of course doesn't exist anymore so it can't respond to queries either so I use a SERP API to query search results from Google and display them instead
This is stuff I wouldn't even be close to doing before AI, I'd have no idea how to configure Dnsmasq to spoof queries like this
The search engine results are proxied via my HTTP proxy so MSIE4 can open most sites (because old browsers don't support HTTPS and most JS!)
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