Dear sweet Bob, no!
I used to live in Ocoee, a western suburb of Orlando, Florida. "West Orange," as the area was known, was home to a disproportionately large number of people who worked in the building and construction trades. EVERYBODY, and I mean EVERYBODY, had a brick-sized Nextel permanently grafted to their hips; they were called "West Orange County passports" among some in the area.
You know the frustration experienced by those who have to put up with yuppies and loud cell phone calls in public? Well, jack it up a couple of orders of magnitude higher in West Orange County. In stores, restaurants, coffee houses, anywhere, you couldn't go more than five minutes without hearing "BREEEEEEP! blah blah drywall blah blah Bobcat blah blah Sunbelt rentals blah blah framing inspectors BREEEEEEEP!" Yes, even at the movie theater, blue collar bubbas would be droning on about pouring concrete, and NOBODY CARED. Why? Everybody else was armed with a West Orange County passport. BREEEEEEEEP!
These antique computers are as useful today as they were when they were first manufactured. I visited plenty of bulletin boards with my Atari 400, so text-based Web browsing really isn't something that's beyond the pale for old boxen.
Do you really need Contiki to surf with an old X86? An 8086-based PC could be used to dial into a shell account, where you could use Lynx, telnet, and so on. College computer labs of the early and mid-1990s were filled with 286 and 386-based PCs, 68XXX-based Macs, and Sun Sparcstations, equipped with Mosaic and capable of surfing at decent speeds.
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Dear sweet Bob, no! I used to live in Ocoee, a western suburb of Orlando, Florida. "West Orange," as the area was known, was home to a disproportionately large number of people who worked in the building and construction trades. EVERYBODY, and I mean EVERYBODY, had a brick-sized Nextel permanently grafted to their hips; they were called "West Orange County passports" among some in the area. You know the frustration experienced by those who have to put up with yuppies and loud cell phone calls in public? Well, jack it up a couple of orders of magnitude higher in West Orange County. In stores, restaurants, coffee houses, anywhere, you couldn't go more than five minutes without hearing "BREEEEEEP! blah blah drywall blah blah Bobcat blah blah Sunbelt rentals blah blah framing inspectors BREEEEEEEP!" Yes, even at the movie theater, blue collar bubbas would be droning on about pouring concrete, and NOBODY CARED. Why? Everybody else was armed with a West Orange County passport. BREEEEEEEEP!
Do you really need Contiki to surf with an old X86? An 8086-based PC could be used to dial into a shell account, where you could use Lynx, telnet, and so on. College computer labs of the early and mid-1990s were filled with 286 and 386-based PCs, 68XXX-based Macs, and Sun Sparcstations, equipped with Mosaic and capable of surfing at decent speeds.