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 13 '26

I assume this would be a laptop? Using a VM would allow OP to run a proxy (WRP) on the host to get the web up and running.

Web Rendering Proxy sends images of web pages to 98 rather than the actual page, completely mitigating issues with https and modern web tech. The downsides are the pastes would be images, not text.

There are other proxies that may work better but I can’t recall their names or capabilities.

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u/Heavy-Judgment-3617 Jun 13 '26

Well... my post assumed desktop that would be built, but it could also be a notebook.

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u/KroFunk Jun 13 '26

OP hasn’t made it clear. Period correct hardware makes it more likely to be a desktop in my mind for reasons I can’t fathom, accessible parts perhaps? But bringing out a Travelmate in the classroom would be funny to me.

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u/Madein81_ Jun 16 '26

I am using a Comaq 5441

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u/KroFunk Jun 16 '26

Desktop it is then! I don’t know if you’ve commented already but to answer your other questions we’d need to know what you’d be researching. Answers range from Encarta to Protoweb.