Does your ancient Windows 98 or Windows ME PC fancy an outing round the World Wide Web? Go on... Give it a day out. For old time's sake...
If you thought it was impossible to browse the Internet with a 300MHz CPU and 128MB of RAM, you are wrong. At least, you are as I write this post in August 2020. That’s exactly what I’ve just been doing on a late 1990s PC. Let’s not kid ourselves – with those resources, browsing is not lightning fast, but it’s faster than dial-up, and it’s really useful to have any PC connected to the World Wide Web – however ancient it may be.
The experience is possible thanks to the updating of a very old browser, which makes it compatible with contemporary Transport Layer Security – normally abbreviated to TLS. Using the browser feels a bit like surfing the Web back in the early 2000s, except you can access sites that didn’t exist back then – like Twitter, for example. More on that in a moment.