Windows 95 Going on the Internet

Created on September 05, 2015
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Connecting to the internet in Windows 95 is quick and easy, at least when you compare it to previous Windows versions. After installing a Xircom RealPort CardBus PCMCIA Ethernet card into a laptop, I test the compatibility of certain websites against three old versions of Internet Explorer.

These websites include:

• The default home page set by Internet Explorer in Windows 95, which redirects to the present-day MSN home page.
• Google, which has scripts that don't render properly in IE1, thereby shoving the search bar way down the page.
• YouTube, which failed to load in all instances of Internet Explorer, presumably due to them recently dropping TLS 1.0 support.
• 95 Is Alive, a website more appropriate for Internet Explorer 5 as it was originally coded and published on a Windows 95 machine.

Web browsing on Windows 95 has gotten a lot more difficult with the conventional browsers of the time. RetroZilla exists now, but as far as I'm aware, it doesn't support HTML5 and modern JavaScript. What we've ended up doing is creating some websites of our own to counterbalance the trend towards HTTPS-only sites which abuse JavaScript. Our sites are intentionally designed to work in old browsers, and load fast on old computers.

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please make a avi format one

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