VOGONS uses very simple and light forum software. I could browse and reply even on a K6-II 500MHz without much hassle. I love forums like this. 😁

IE6 is also very fast on this site on either 98 or 2k. Too bad 99% of websites added https a couple of years ago so I can't open anything other than vogons anymore on old pc's. Latest firefox on 2K can acces a lot of websites however, haven't had much luck with Opera.

This topic is relevant to this one:

Portal or webpage friendly to old web browsers ?

List of Web Browsers For All Operating Systems

To browse most sites and also TLS 1.2 sites you'll need to use Opera 10.70 Build 3488 (for 95) or 12.02 (for 98 with Kernelex) (enable TLS 1.2 and disable anything older in Opera).
You'll possibly still need to use a proxy for ciphers and certs not supported by Opera but the TLS 1.2 sites I tried worked.

You can browse TLS 1.2 sites by using Retrozilla, K-Meleon (KernelEx) or Qtweb (Kernelex) but sites won't render correctly (Retrozilla) and you'll need to disable javascript for K-Meleon and Qtweb.

You can browse TLS 1.2 sites without worrying about the browser supporting TLS by using a proxy but most TLS 1.2 sites won't render correctly on browsers that aren't Opera, K-Meleon or QtWeb.

Probably best hope for 9x if relying on the installed browser to render is for someone to modify the leaked Presto Opera code or fix the Javascript issue in K-Meleon and Qtweb.

Web Render Proxy would be the next.

Thanks for the information. I did a little more digging and this is what I ended up doing to my system.

I followed these steps:

• Microsoft Layer for Unicode on Windows 95, 98, and Me Systems into C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\
• KernelEx v4.5.2
• Opera 12.02 Build 1578 right-click -> properties -> KernelEx Tab -> Use specific compatibility mode -> Windows 2000 SP4

Here's the KernelEx Wiki page for Opera.

Don't complain about browsing modern sites on 7+ year old browsers.

But can I complain about browsing 7-year old sites on modern browsers?

if you wish