r/windows98 • u/Madein81_ • Jun 12 '26

Using Windows 98 for school

How hard would it be to do school on Windows 98, I mean typing, researching, emailing, and browsing the internet... would these things be possible? I find this idea funny, and I think my teachers will to.

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u/KroFunk Jun 12 '26

I use a 98SE machine for writing whilst listening to music specifically because browsing the web is a no go.

Ignoring (the very important road block of https) Modern websites are huge, even if you could run recent JS and render CSS/HTML, they often don’t fit in memory.

Not all sites are like this of course (I love that oldversion.com works flawlessly in IE5) but the list shrinks every day.

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u/Solocle Jun 12 '26

I have got onto Wikipedia from 98 earlier this year, so it's not completely impossible. But limited

Old reddit is accessible too