# Surf the Web on a Commore?! How???? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [December 13, 2003, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surf-the-web-on-a-commore-how/218807 "2003-12-13T19:46:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![A\_Curious\_Writer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@A\_Curious\_Writer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/A_Curious_Writer)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2003, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surf-the-web-on-a-commore-how/218807/1 "2003-12-13T19:46:20Z")
I had someone tell me the other day that it’s posible to surf the Web on an old Commodore 64. Does anyone know how, or even do it themselves? I mean, I remember those old things, unless it’s hooked up to a TV you sure don’t get many differnt colors. (Heaven forbid you try it on a monochrome computer.) But, more importantly wouldn’t the modem…well…melt? I mean, sure, it’s just data in the form of electrons, but still, wouldn’t it come in way too fast? Or, if you do it with one of those 2400 baud things (is that the fastest you can do on a C-64?), your speed is going to be so slow! ---
**Author:** ![SlickRoenick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e68b1a/32.png) [@SlickRoenick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlickRoenick)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2003, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surf-the-web-on-a-commore-how/218807/2 "2003-12-13T19:50:16Z")
Would a C64 even understand TCP/IP? ---
**Author:** ![Declan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecae2f/32.png) [@Declan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Declan)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2003, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surf-the-web-on-a-commore-how/218807/3 "2003-12-13T19:52:27Z")
Off hand , I would say that if you can load lynx , you can surf the web. No idea on the C-64 , if thats the model, the commodore 128 , i can believe. Declan ---
**Author:** ![RM\_Mentock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e274bd/32.png) [@RM\_Mentock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RM_Mentock)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2003, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surf-the-web-on-a-commore-how/218807/4 "2003-12-13T19:58:48Z")
Is it Fall already? ---
**Author:** ![Saranga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Saranga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saranga)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2003, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surf-the-web-on-a-commore-how/218807/5 "2003-12-13T20:06:50Z")
The C64 has a sizable hacking community. You can [surf the web](http://www.armory.com/~spectre/cwi/hl/). And [run a crude form of linux](http://lng.sourceforge.net/). ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2003, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surf-the-web-on-a-commore-how/218807/6 "2003-12-13T22:02:33Z")
I thought the title was “Surf the Web on a commode?” Sorry. ---
**Author:** ![BlackKnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/eb8c5e/32.png) [@BlackKnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlackKnight)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2003, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surf-the-web-on-a-commore-how/218807/7 "2003-12-13T22:13:37Z")
Not only can you surf the web on one, you can run a webserver on one. [http://www.dunkels.com/adam/contiki/](http://www.dunkels.com/adam/contiki/) ---
**Author:** ![Nanoda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce73a5/32.png) [@Nanoda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nanoda)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2003, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surf-the-web-on-a-commore-how/218807/8 "2003-12-13T23:23:16Z")
Bah. Running a webserver is easy. You can run one off of [potatos](http://totl.net/Spud/), or lose it in a bowl of [cheerios](http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/~shri/iPic.html). Having an ethernet connection where the data rate is X times your bus speed, and being able to display 500k pages when you only have 64k of RAM, now _that_ I find impressive. 🙂 [Slashdot link](http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/18/1857204&mode=nested&tid=126) for the still-curious.