Amazing! Now browse a few websites and enjoy having in infested by worms and trojans for the ultimate 90s internet experience.

Buy Amazon stock!

pinesal wrote on 2022-03-09, 15:26:

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Using a Linksys LNE100TX which I found at Goodwill factory sealed in the box for $8.

I bridged my wifi network to an ethernet connection using one of these
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08V5BW55G

I have Internet Explorer 6 set up with a TheOldNet.com proxy
http://theoldnet.com/docs/httpproxy/index.html

And we are back in 1996 baby!
oldnet.jpg

YEAH i like the idea! Bought and will aswell get into it....1996 INET on the way.

appiah4 wrote on 2022-03-09, 15:32:

Amazing! Now browse a few websites and enjoy having in infested by worms and trojans for the ultimate 90s internet experience.

+1

pinesal wrote on 2022-03-09, 15:26:

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(I wasn't sure which board to post this at, move if needed)

Using a Linksys LNE100TX which I found at Goodwill factory sealed in the box for $8.

I bridged my wifi network to an ethernet connection using one of these
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08V5BW55G

That's a good idea, actually. Much better than using an outdated WiFi at home for the sake of compatibility (say, WEP64 and 802.11b).

pinesal wrote on 2022-03-09, 15:26:

And we are back in 1996 baby!
oldnet.jpg

Cool! Back then we (my family) had T-Online v1.2 software for Windows 3.1 with the then-brand new KIT standard.
Browsing the actual Internet needed an extra step.
The software was then showing an icon with a moving highway and Netscape Navigator showed up. Was NN 1.2 or 2.1, not sure.
It was installed on my father's Win95 PC, a 486DX40 with 16MB RAM..

About the same time, the Micky Maus Magazin was full of screenshots of interesting websites.
One issue even shipped with a CD-ROM that contained jokes as audio tracks and the T-Online software.
The jokes would nowadays qualify as "dad jokes". 🙄😂
Edit: It was issue #37 from '98, actually. My bad. 😅

Edit: Back in '96 things like QuickTime and Real Player were popular still.
Websites used *.mov and *.ra files for their embedded content, if memory serves.
My father had QT 2.x installed, I believe.
That was good enough to watch little videos in 160x120 pixels or so.
- I do remember watching the video news at tagesschau.de on that Win95 PC.
The modem was an 28k8 or 33k6 model, afaik.

Anyway, I don't mean to high jack your thread.
These things just came to mind because you're mentioning 1996.
That time was a time of transition to me.
It was roughly about the time when the people in my neighborhood slowly became aware of the internet.

Takes me back to the old Yahoo commercials. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxsftGNpFaI

Jo22 wrote on 2022-03-09, 20:05:

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pinesal wrote on 2022-03-09, 15:26:

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(I wasn't sure which board to post this at, move if needed)

Using a Linksys LNE100TX which I found at Goodwill factory sealed in the box for $8.

I bridged my wifi network to an ethernet connection using one of these
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08V5BW55G

That's a good idea, actually. Much better than using an outdated WiFi at home for the sake of compatibility (say, WEP64 and 802.11b).

pinesal wrote on 2022-03-09, 15:26:

And we are back in 1996 baby!
oldnet.jpg

Cool! Back then we (my family) had T-Online v1.2 software for Windows 3.1 with the then-brand new KIT standard.
Browsing the actual Internet needed an extra step.
The software was then showing an icon with a moving highway and Netscape Navigator showed up. Was NN 1.2 or 2.1, not sure.
It was installed on my father's Win95 PC, a 486DX40 with 16MB RAM..

About the same time, the Micky Maus Magazin was full of screenshots of interesting websites.
One issue even shipped with a CD-ROM that contained jokes as audio tracks and the T-Online software.
The jokes would nowadays qualify as "dad jokes". 🙄😂
Edit: It was issue #37 from '98, actually. My bad. 😅

Edit: Back in '96 things like QuickTime and Real Player were popular still.
Websites used *.mov and *.ra files for their embedded content, if memory serves.
My father had QT 2.x installed, I believe.
That was good enough to watch little videos in 160x120 pixels or so.
- I do remember watching the video news at tagesschau.de on that Win95 PC.
The modem was an 28k8 or 33k6 model, afaik.

Anyway, I don't mean to high jack your thread.
These things just came to mind because you're mentioning 1996.
That time was a time of transition to me.
It was roughly about the time when the people in my neighborhood slowly became aware of the internet.

Hey, I am happy to let you jack my thread. I like just chit chatting about times.

You may be interested to know that Protoweb has a proxy service too and they multiple options for speed including simulated a 33.6k connection, T1 and others. The downside is you have access to way fewer sites on theirs.

pinesal wrote on 2022-03-09, 21:47:

Jo22 wrote on 2022-03-09, 20:05:

That's a good idea, actually. Much better than using an outdated WiFi at home for the sake of compatibility (say, WEP64 and 802. […]
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pinesal wrote on 2022-03-09, 15:26:

(I wasn't sure which board to post this at, move if needed) […]
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(I wasn't sure which board to post this at, move if needed)

Using a Linksys LNE100TX which I found at Goodwill factory sealed in the box for $8.

I bridged my wifi network to an ethernet connection using one of these
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08V5BW55G

That's a good idea, actually. Much better than using an outdated WiFi at home for the sake of compatibility (say, WEP64 and 802.11b).

pinesal wrote on 2022-03-09, 15:26:

And we are back in 1996 baby!
oldnet.jpg

Cool! Back then we (my family) had T-Online v1.2 software for Windows 3.1 with the then-brand new KIT standard.
Browsing the actual Internet needed an extra step.
The software was then showing an icon with a moving highway and Netscape Navigator showed up. Was NN 1.2 or 2.1, not sure.
It was installed on my father's Win95 PC, a 486DX40 with 16MB RAM..

About the same time, the Micky Maus Magazin was full of screenshots of interesting websites.
One issue even shipped with a CD-ROM that contained jokes as audio tracks and the T-Online software.
The jokes would nowadays qualify as "dad jokes". 🙄😂
Edit: It was issue #37 from '98, actually. My bad. 😅

Edit: Back in '96 things like QuickTime and Real Player were popular still.
Websites used *.mov and *.ra files for their embedded content, if memory serves.
My father had QT 2.x installed, I believe.
That was good enough to watch little videos in 160x120 pixels or so.
- I do remember watching the video news at tagesschau.de on that Win95 PC.
The modem was an 28k8 or 33k6 model, afaik.

Anyway, I don't mean to high jack your thread.
These things just came to mind because you're mentioning 1996.
That time was a time of transition to me.
It was roughly about the time when the people in my neighborhood slowly became aware of the internet.

Hey, I am happy to let you jack my thread. I like just chit chatting about times.

You may be interested to know that Protoweb has a proxy service too and they multiple options for speed including simulated a 33.6k connection, T1 and others. The downside is you have access to way fewer sites on theirs.

Thanks for your understanding. 🙂
Sometimes I'm simply taken away when talking about these things..😅
And if your sister is telling you that you "talk too much", that says something, haha. 😅

Also thanks for the tip! The modem we had in '96 was an external modem by Trust, I think.
My modem on my 286 was a beige Creatix modem. 14k4, I think.
That brings back memories of my school's computer lab, by the way.
Must have been a bit later. We used MS Frontpage to design our school's webpage.
It had this little speed counter in the lower corner.
It was telling how long a page needed to load at a given connection speed. 😃

God Frontpage . .I have not seen that name in years

It doesnt bring back good memories 🤣

Meatball wrote on 2022-03-09, 15:54:

Buy Amazon stock!

Amazon? That book store? Who's gonna buy books in the 21th century?
Invest into Yahoo! It will be the number 1 search engine forever!
3dfx is also a safe bet.

Also, Nokia man. Mobile phones are the future.

I may have to try The Old Net at some point. But what I'm more amazed at are the seemingly ancient 90's pages that inexplicably still exists. Stuff like:

This Tyrian fan page
http://members.iinet.net.au/~vannevar/tyrian/

This old walkthrough for Jagged Alliance, although the entire domain is super 90's.
http://www.thecomputershow.com/computershow/w … lliancewalk.htm

This Syndicate fan page
http://syndicate.lubiki.pl/

Although I will say, the Syndicate fan page has been updated with Syndicate news as late as 2021! Although it looks like a 90's style page, there is some more modern JS and CSS going on under the hood. Oh well.

Wow that's a fun project. Brings me back to being a kid in the early 90s good times.

appiah4 wrote on 2022-03-10, 11:20:

Also, Nokia man. Mobile phones are the future.

Yes, definitely!
90% market share. How can anybody ever catch up to that?

Here is a video of me browsing the old web on my setup. It's pretty long so you may just want to scrub through

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_dy5DaAM4E

Only reason I network my retro rigs is file sharing but must admit for some reason having these 20+ year old PC's access the internet makes me happy, even if only for a few seconds before the outdated browser crashes