I’ve got my MongrelMac up and running, just for fun, it’s an old 17" iMac G4 800, running 9.2.2, with an ancient ADB Apple Extended Keyboard II (Nimitz) and Kensington ADB TurboMouse 5.0 through a Belkin ADB to USB adapter, it’s up and running on my AirPort network, so just for fun, I decided to see how some horribly obsolete browsers would work on the current Internet…
I’m using a Sixteen year old keyboard and mouse, running a ten year old operating system and web browsers (Mac OS 9.2, Netscape 4.7 and Microsoft Internet Exploiter 5.0) on a Seven year old computer…
Netscape 4.7 is by far the most dated of the two browsers I’m running, the Apple webpage renders as mostly text, the SDMB main page renders as plain text, and the SDMB forums render as mostly text (no, the ads do not appear to Guests on this setup), and YouTube? Faghettaboutit, it doesn’t even try to load, however, Netscape 4.7 is clearly the fastest of the two browsers, mainly because it doesn’t have to load all those pesky graphics…
Microsoft Internet Exploiter 5.0, I never thought I’d say this about a Microsoft app, but in this case, IE is the superior browser, most web pages (SDMB, Apple, YouTube even) render pretty closely to what you’d see today, with the right plug-ins IE could be pretty usable today especially for someone who is saddled with ancient Mac hardware and either can’t or won’t upgrade to the current stuff, it’s a tad slower than Netscape 4.7, but it’s not as limited
this post was actually composed in Netscape 4.7, for surfing the forums, Netscape 4.7 isn’t too bad, especially considering I don’t need to load superfluous graphics
So, what’s the oldest machine you surf the net and/or browse the SDMB on?