First post, by keenmaster486
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Many of us, myself included, like to try to get our old computers on the Internet in some capacity, whether they were intended to or not, and sometimes we go to great lengths to cajole old OS's into working with the modern web, or sometimes we opt for an authentic experience of browsing old 90's era websites, etc.
Here's a thread where we can post pictures of our vintage rigs browsing the internet, tips, tricks, methods we use to connect things, links to web pages that load correctly on old browsers, etc.
Some of this information is already contained in the "List of Web Browsers" thread. That thread focuses on getting old web browsers to work with the modern web, i.e. latest browsers for each OS, hacks to get newer browsers to work, etc. If it's already there, no need to post it here. This thread is more of a general "Look what I did with my old Deskpro" etc. thread, and less of a raw information dump.
Bonus points if you are actually making your post from the machine(s) in question!
To start off, something not very impressive but fun all the same. My IBM Thinkpad A20m running Windows 98 and RetroZilla 2.1, making this very post with no issues. I emailed myself the picture from my phone and downloaded it on said machine (I love backwards compatibility).
(quick tip: to keep this thread from becoming an image wall, and help older machines to load it, make your images smaller, like 200K-ish or less, and upload them as attachments instead of using external image hosting sites)
World's foremost 486 enjoyer.