Browsing The Old Net on the $5 Windows 98 PC!

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[fakeaccount]

"You shouldn't connect Windows 7 to internet anymore"
Fine, I browse internet with Windows 98 then.

[АлексейГриднев-ир]

In the past, websites were simple, you could design them in a freaking Notepad (I did exactly that). Nowadays, any website is a bloated mess, with all those popups, ads, autoplaying videos, cookies and other nonsense.

[mjdxp]

I'd love to see you cover Windows CE at some point, it's a pretty interesting and lesser known Windows version.

[bricklander]

1:42 yoooo there i am i'm the xbox360 guy

[csmoKramr]

The World is Not Enough features some windows CE product placement, hence the tie in on the website!

[mjdxp]

Haha, great idea! I still gotta install an early version on Internet Explorer on a VM sometime and play with this.

[liverpoodlian]

Great video Michael! Here's the name of that james bond palmtop incase you want to try and track one down, its a HP Jornada 430SE. :)

[SkeletonSyskey]

How about trying it on Netscape Navigator?

[KasparOnTube]

Watching this video with Athlon XP computer from year 2002 :D if anybody has interest.. the last fairly modern browser what works here and plays youtube is Firefox ver 48 :) from mid 2016

[BSzili]

Actually this was pretty interesting. Actually.

[NuffMan_]

My internet experience:
I had a w95 486 pc and i did needed drivers for my gpu.
As the pc did not have usb i though i just do it myself and download the driver thru IE that came with the w95.

I did found a website that supported the old ie enough for me to find the driver and it's download button.

Unfortunately, It had a caphta of some sorts "write the number in the picture to download" and the picture was just a big X, as in error

[connorm]

I just signed the guestbook from my Dell Inpsiron 4000 running IE6 on Win2K i think but it lagged out

[richardbettridge]

Just wanted to let you know of my Christmas Update to The Old Net. We now have a full HTTP Proxy! This means on old browsers you can add The Old Net as a proxy and type in domains like nintendo.com into the address bar. No longer do you have to go to theoldnet.com and do a domain search from there!

Just set your proxy settings to Host: theoldnet.com Port: 8000 and No-Proxy Domains to web.archive.org

You can find full instructions on the website, thanks!

[rekj_]

HP Jornada 430se is the pocket pc you were talking about

[ChungusKhann]

I use QTWeb and RetroZilla for my Windows 98 browsing. It works fairly fine but I wish there was something that could support javascript and youtube videos on Win98SE.

[presidentkiller]

My brother had a Jornada but from 2001 or 2002, before HP discontinued them to favor the iPAQs they just acquired from the Compaq merger. It was a great device, but even though it was running Windows CE, the Palm had more apps back then. My mom had a Palm m505 and I liked it more, but the Jornada's multimedia capabilities were great for the time.

[PCWindowstechguy]

For me the old internet haved alot of ads and some sites looked very ugly also again interesting video

[friedgpu]

I did the same recently on my Power Mac G3 B&W and OS 9.2.2.

[krantz]

I’ve played around with The Old Net before on my iMac G3 using Mac OS 10.3.9 and an old fashioned dial-up connection. Worked pretty well.

[edfolway]

Love the old style webpages, gives me
A nostalgic feeling, back to the 90s
When life was much simpler, better
Then this shit era we live in now.