"Oldest Computer on the Internet"

[AStar617]

Didn't someone run a contest like this a while back? Was a winner determined? What was the criteria for a vintage system to be considered "online" (since anything can telnet to an online box)?

Google doesn't seem to be turning up much for some reason. Thx.

 

[Iron Woode]

there are Commodore 64's that can actually surf the net through an external modem and a free browser that someone made (text only).

 

[ElFenix]

apple IIe's can surf the net with a text browser

 

[Eli]

Even an XT should be able to "surf the net" with a text browser.

 

[AStar617]

My personal oldest would be early-mid 80s, a Sun 3/50 workstation (and hopefully soon, a Sun 2/120), but I'm thinking there's gotta be some DEC VAX boxes out there that are still online. Maybe even PDPs?

 

[Syringer]

I'm currently posting this on an ENIAC.

 

[AccruedExpenditure]

Originally posted by: Syringer
I'm currently posting this on an ENIAC.

:thumbsup:

 

[Rubycon]

This post was made from the jack of spades of an empty deck.

How many mips is four 12AX7's striped capable of? :laugh:

There's a lightbulb in some firehouse that's been burning for 100 years. You can see that on the internet but the bulb can't post. Screw ins don't have posts anyway. At least it's screwed tight.

Nixie tubes are better than any CRT or LCD. CRT's flicker and give headaches. The front to back movement of the cathodes in nixies hypnotize even the most hardcore nasa nerd in the trenches - as long as you know we really did land a man on the moon!

My head hurts - where's the friggin' butal??!

 

[Nohr]

I got bored one day a couple years ago and hooked up my 386DX 25 to my network and had it browsing web pages over my cable modem. Used DOS 6.22 and a graphical web browser (Arachne). It took something like 2 minutes to render every page.

 

[Syringer]

Originally posted by: Nohr
I got bored one day a couple years ago and hooked up my 386DX 25 to my network and had it browsing web pages over my cable modem. Used DOS 6.22 and a graphical web browser (Arachne). It took something like 2 minutes to render every page.

Ha, that's awesome.

 

[nakedfrog]

Originally posted by: Syringer

Originally posted by: Nohr
I got bored one day a couple years ago and hooked up my 386DX 25 to my network and had it browsing web pages over my cable modem. Used DOS 6.22 and a graphical web browser (Arachne). It took something like 2 minutes to render every page.

Ha, that's awesome.

Wasn't so awesome back when that was what we had
The joys of surfing with images turned off...

 

[Homerboy]

Originally posted by: MS Dawn
This post was made from the jack of spades of an empty deck.

How many mips is four 12AX7's striped capable of? :laugh:

There's a lightbulb in some firehouse that's been burning for 100 years. You can see that on the internet but the bulb can't post. Screw ins don't have posts anyway. At least it's screwed tight.

Nixie tubes are better than any CRT or LCD. CRT's flicker and give headaches. The front to back movement of the cathodes in nixies hypnotize even the most hardcore nasa nerd in the trenches - as long as you know we really did land a man on the moon!

My head hurts - where's the friggin' butal??!

Who would have though the biggest nerd on these board would be a girl... in all my years here, I think MS Dawn takes the cake.

 

[arcenite]

Originally posted by: AccruedExpenditure

Originally posted by: Syringer
I'm currently posting this on an ENIAC.

:thumbsup:

An ENIAC says that there is more than one ENIAC, you are posting on the ENIAC ^^

 

[iamtrout]

I'm currently posting from my 4-function calculator.

 

[Kyteland]

Originally posted by: Syringer
I'm currently posting this on an ENIAC.

I'm posting from an alien computer that crash landed on the Earth millions of years ago.

Oh, wait. No, it's a Dell.

 

[fire400]

cell phones are not quite old, but I'd have to say that they would definetly count in this game because of the size of a cell phone and the wireless capability of web surfing. even the advanced PDA's with cell phone technology can surf the web with a graphical interface instead of the usual text browsing that most cell phones have, and it's done wirelessly...

as far as old computers go, I think that if you can do Windows 3.1 on a cable modem for surfing the web, you've got at least decent speeds. although... I've heard accounts of Celeron computers processing information slower than what it could handle when information was retrieved from the Internet, and this is just web browsing, anyone had this issue?

 

[PingSpike]

I could probably get an XT on the internet, given enough time. However, anything other then that I'd be out of my realm.

Its funny that I never used a dos web browser 'back in the day' though. Windows 3.1 sucked and I usually used netscape through that on some 486s.

 

[Syringer]

Originally posted by: arcenite

Originally posted by: AccruedExpenditure

Originally posted by: Syringer
I'm currently posting this on an ENIAC.

:thumbsup:

An ENIAC says that there is more than one ENIAC, you are posting on the ENIAC ^^

I invented a duplicate.

 

[Iron Woode]

Originally posted by: PingSpike
I could probably get an XT on the internet, given enough time. However, anything other then that I'd be out of my realm.

Its funny that I never used a dos web browser 'back in the day' though. Windows 3.1 sucked and I usually used netscape through that on some 486s.

I have an Epson 286 sitting in my basement that still works.

Maybe I could hook it up to my lan?

 

[OrganizedChaos]

this post was posted from a large black monolith.

 

[Gamer X]

I'm posting from a P3 550Mhz with 128mb of RAM

 

[deftron]

I'm posting from an abacus

 

[deftron]

I'm posting from an abacus

 

[deftron]

yeah .. it's a little slow

 

[Jassi]

Originally posted by: deftron
yeah .. it's a little slow

and the cup + string as the backbone to your connection is not helping either.