Wow, that takes me back, had forgotten all about Lynx. I used it on my Commodore 128 (which had the 64 built in too). My first computer was in 1981, a Commodore VIC-20. don’t think it could get online any way, but some hacker probably could find a way.
I might be wrong, but I don’t think the LGA 775 socket that the Core 2 uses was released until 2004 or so. So he had to have replaced that.
My computer has a floppy drive, CD-ROM drive and hard drive which came from an HP Pavilion something-or-other I bought in 1996.
I have Lynx running on my Sony laptop running Vista. I use it check accessibility of web sites. The explanation I use is: “This is what the web search engines see when they look at your site”. All the Flash nonsense is invisible.
I’m reading the SDMB on an abacus!
I saw this as an invitation to test my backup PC, a Compaq Presario that I bought new in the summer of 1996. Specs: Windows 95, Pentium processor, 40 megabytes of RAM, 1.2 gigabyte hard-drive, 28.8 kilobit/second modem, Mozilla 1.4 browser.
So far everything looks okay.
:mad:
<puts away Etch-a-Sketch>
When I was a kid, I had to read the SDMB on stone tablets!
OK, I had another reason to hook it up, so here I am posting from my vintage 1998 WallStreet. I have several operating systems on this thing, but in the spirit of the thread I went with the oldest one it can natively boot: this is MacOS 8.1, y’all.
Like I said, my ex-husband did it. He only pulled it up 'cause I asked him to, though. I remember posting from it, though it was just to some unrelated thread. The point of the thing wasn’t the ability to browse the web, even; that was a given. It was the method of connection. Here’s the documentation that was posted.
/hijack
I prefer oracle bones. It’s the Firefox of bronze age web browsers.