Robin4 wrote:

Isnt that a little bit risky to go on the internet with that old browser version? […]
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Isnt that a little bit risky to go on the internet with that old browser version?

Can you use youtube on that machine?? 🤣

Yesterday i was on the internet with this system:

AMD Athlon 850mhz Socket A
ABIT KT7A-RAID
512 MB PC-133 SDRAM
320GB SATA disk samsung T166 (with IDE convertor)
Asus Geforce 4 TI 4400 AGP x4 128MB

Cheap Sweex Gigabit lan..

Windows 98 second edition

Kernelex software + K-meleon webbrower. (cant use Youtube, but other things works perfectly and fast.)

The machine is not networked, so minimum risk there... but your Athlon machine is awfully similar (edit- in power I mean) to my regular Win98 surfing rig- cept I have a Coppermine 800mhz, also using K-Meleon. 😁

Hmm when we first got the internet at home was using a DX2 66 with 16MB, Internet Explorer 3 took ages to start up on that. Was always using 16 Colours then in Windows 3.1, I actually played a lot of Sim City 2000 in 16 Colours but when I first saw it on 95 with 256 Colours I thought it looked amazing.

awergh wrote:

Hmm when we first got the internet at home was using a DX2 66 with 16MB, Internet Explorer 3 took ages to start up on that. Was always using 16 Colours then in Windows 3.1, I actually played a lot of Sim City 2000 in 16 Colours but when I first saw it on 95 with 256 Colours I thought it looked amazing.

Oldest machine i've posted on is a PowerMac 7600/132 with a G3. Oldest computer to post on i've seen is a ZX Spectrum from 1982. 😁

tokyoracer wrote:

awergh wrote:

Hmm when we first got the internet at home was using a DX2 66 with 16MB, Internet Explorer 3 took ages to start up on that. Was always using 16 Colours then in Windows 3.1, I actually played a lot of Sim City 2000 in 16 Colours but when I first saw it on 95 with 256 Colours I thought it looked amazing.

Oldest machine i've posted on is a PowerMac 7600/132 with a G3. Oldest computer to post on i've seen is a ZX Spectrum from 1982. 😁

Some people have gotten online with Apple II's using Contiki and Lynx.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMzgp7xTp1k

Dialing into Compuserve via "acoustic coupler" on a B/W Macintosh Plus in the late 80's or early 90s.
I had a friend who used to operate a BBS from his Amiga 500 around that time as well.

To me, PCs were worthless then. 😳

Tons of youtube videos of people getting on the internet from PC/XTs, 5155s, PCjr...

There are also live web servers running on C64s.

What's the oldest PC you've used on the net, or to post on Vogons?

Everyday I use my World's Fastest 486 (Cyrix 5x86-133) to check Vogons, cpuworld, check weather, check work e-mail (Outlook Web App), check for parts on digikey, browse wiki.

It is the Flash apps that sometimes kill online browsing for me.

I've wrote these posts on my 486

I was there 2 minutes ago on my 486 with ie 5.0 on win 3.11. I tried to post a hello but it just would not accept the submit... 😢
I also tried with Netscape 4.08, was even buggier.

And this forum is ugly as sin in 16 colors. Least i can offer is a screenshot 😁

First computer I used the internet on was an IBM PS/ValuePoint with a 486SX. This was back in 1995 or 1996. In recent times, the oldest computer I used the internet with would be a circa 199 Micron Milennia with a 133mhz Pentium. That was early this year and I was even using it with what was the latest version of Firefox at the time.

Right now, I'm actually posting this from a circa 2000 Compaq Deskpro I have plugged into my TV serving as an internet terminal, youtube player and stereo system.

Hi!
I´m posting with a Pentium III Katmai 500 Slot-1

System Specs:
Mobo:SOYO 6BA+
AGP:nVidia TNT2 16MB (today i will buy a nVidia GeForce MX400 64MB)
3D:Diamond Monster 3D 4MB
RAM:320MB PC100
OS:Windows XP SP2 Lite
LAN:Realtek RTL8139 (the classic NIC)

I use this as my main PC (planning upgrade to a Socket-A mobo)

But my very first computer on the internet is:

CPU:Intel Celeron-A 366
AGP:Matrox MGA-G100
RAM:128MB
OS:Win2000
Internet:3G usb modem

I used to browse on a 486 DX4-100 running win 3.1, netscape navgator gold, and a 14.4 modem. 😜

Hi again!
Posting from Pentium Classic P54C-100

System Specs:
PCChips M598LMR
PCI:Trident 9685
OS:Windows 98SE
IE 5.0
96mb RAM
LAN:3Com 3C905B-TX

Posting again from 486

System Specs:
PCChips M919 v 3.4
PCI:S3 ViRGE 325
OS:DOS 7.10
Arachne 1.95
16mb RAM
LAN:Realtek RTL8139C

Dang....I should give this a try 🤣

Will I be needing a firewall if I'm behind a router btw? If not, I probably won't bother 😜

IBM PS/2 8580 from 1987. (Yeah 1996 is just 9 years later 😉 )
Running WfW 3.11, Opera 3.52 in 1024x768 256 colors on 8514A.

sebaz_ri wrote:

Posting again from 486 […]
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Posting again from 486

System Specs:
PCChips M919 v 3.4
PCI:S3 ViRGE 325
OS:DOS 7.10
Arachne 1.95
16mb RAM
LAN:Realtek RTL8139C

Again the same system but different OS

System Specs:
OS:Windows 95B with PLUS! 🤣
CPU:Cyrix 5x86-120 😳
IE 5.5 😁

Oldest machine? Right now my SGI O2 workstation (a UNIX graphics workstation from 1996) is connected to my network and online. I also got my old Pentium 90 (as well as my old Pentium 75 laptop) at one point on the 'net with Win95, but browsing via broadband on either of those two machines was less than stellar. Don't really have anything older in my possession at this moment though.

And here's a screenshot of my workstation running Firefox (v2). Pretty slow, but renders almost everything okay. Netscape is a lot faster but crashed upon loading this site (not to mention that it looked like crap).

Those old X window managers had such a business feel to them.