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>I enjoy playing around with old computers and software from the 90s and early 2000s. My childhood computer was the Amiga 500 which I still have and which I love dearly, but the Windows 9x/XP era of computing is the most nostalgic for me because this coincides with my teenage years and my early 20s, and there are just so many great things about it; 3dfx games, the early internet, Napster, ICQ, Winamp... it was a fascinating time in tech.

Archive: https://archive.today/sRMTu From the post: >>I enjoy playing around with old computers and software from the 90s and early 2000s. My childhood computer was the Amiga 500 which I still have and which I love dearly, but the Windows 9x/XP era of computing is the most nostalgic for me because this coincides with my teenage years and my early 20s, and there are just so many great things about it; 3dfx games, the early internet, Napster, ICQ, Winamp... it was a fascinating time in tech.
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WinXP SP2 supported WPA2 no problem. I'm not sure what this guy is going on about.

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Exactly.

Let me get my Commodore 64 on line. Ok it’s online now what? Telnet, no. Ssh, no. Web, no.

Solution looking for a problem (idiot)

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XP, at least, can use Supermium, so you could technically browse the internet - although at this point any CPU you have available is going to be quickly overran by simply trying to load modern web pages.

Before that? Unless you have a game or something that needs it, there's really no reason for pre-XP to be anywhere near the internet.