486 Surfing web in MS-DOS

In this movie I' ll show you useful programs to connect your old PC to net.
My PC specs: 486sx 25mhz proccessor, 8mb ram Hercules mono card + OTIVGA 512kb (for new monitors) Yamaha OPL3-sax sound card , 3com 3c905b network card 1,2gb hdd. Net - ADSL 1mbit.

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• 486
• DOS
• vintage
• computing
• old
• pc
• internet
• net
• web

[stroggowy666ppp]

A jak bawić się internetem w DOS? Specjalne sterowniki?

[LtSyrek]

@stroggowy666ppp

Tak, potrzebujesz tzw. "packet driver", czyli DOSowy sterownik do karty sieciowej. Do tego musisz indywidualnie w każdej aplikacji ustawiać TCP/IP (Twoje IP, IP routera/mostka, DNS itp.).

[TheFunnyfilm]

Where can you download arachne? I have A DOS computer and I would love that browser.

[LtSyrek]

@TheFunnyfilm

Maybe at glennmcc.org

[juliuslagerlf]

Is this like the swithc from text based internet to internet with images?

[LtSyrek]

@juliuslagerlf

No, I'm using one program to browse in graphics mode (Arachne) and another in text mode (Lynx).

[MikeDolar1]

awesome vid

[makinbac0n]

Put linux on it!

[dandanthetaximan]

I played with Arachne back in 2000 on an old 486. It's surprisingly decent.

[Quaaludedude714]

Incredible :) QC

[Telstar85]

Arachne was very interesting piece of software. I've been using it as my primary web/mail/news browser back in the early 90's with a IBM PC/XT and later with a 286. It was very swappy and slow, but it did run. Try do it with M$ software. Those times the 33k modem wasn't the bottle neck, it was the 512k RAM.

[danilojrchacon]

i would prefer arachne browser cause it wasnt boring and you can see pictures but in bobcat browser and lynx, only text