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Clearly. You're missing it by miles 100s of miles at least and being rather snide about it too. What I'm getting is that many macs could access the internet in the 1990s and maybe even the early 2000s and that the basic content has not intrinsically changed. It is still comprised mostly of text...

Cool. I don't have anything that old and as my 6100 is out of commission I don't have anything real old to try at the moment. On the matter of email, something that uses POP and SMTP is probably the best choice, although many servers will probably require SSL and TLS (e.g. gmail does...

I don't see why it should be. No reason they shouldn't be able to handle/open some pages according to a given machine's capabilties. Pages with text only or with a handful of images should be quite doable. http://textfiles.com/for example really should be loadable even on 68k machines...

Snazzy. It's vaguely reminiscent of the tangerine iMac color (at least as far as I can see from the internet). It'd probably block the airflow, but visually it looks like there might be space for the floppy and a fan? in the center middle  if the design had some additional support rails/platform...

Nice shelf colors. 

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6988411?start=0&tstart=0 It's suggested here in the above thread that the front panel board/power button can be an issue and if so that pushing the button in the "right" way can get it to work. They also mention the possibility of using the early imac...

Obviously it's not new, but a spontaneous failure while not in use does seem odd. Have you looked at the capacitors? Do you always keep it stationary? If you've picked it up and moved it since the last time you used it then it might be worth opening it up and reseating the RAM and/or expansion...

That'd be nice, but how would you even begin? Using a third party software package rather than some hand-rolled stuff means you are constrained to their choices about compatibility. I don't even know where you'd begin for this site. It's readable in Classilla under Mac OS 9 and if I had a late...

Does it need to though? That's the question that seems worth asking. I'm sure there are lots of people on here who'd trade a little flexibility in layout/rendering for the site actually working on their old machine. The point is that the actual things most web sites are doing on a fundamental...

For practical purposes you should probably target a 16MHz 68030 and up. I really doubt that the original Macintosh models with an 8MHz 68000 and maxing out at 4MB ram are going to be even possible to do unless you feel it's worth presenting a pure text page. There also are more 68030 and 68040...

Well, good luck. I remember trying to get my 6100 on the web. I seem to recall that I got it connected and that, at the time (~2006-2007), I could connect to some sites with netscape 4.08, but SSL? issues pretty much broke anything with a login/https. Of course that poor thing's HD won't boot...

Try testing the PRAM battery if you have a multimeter and see if it's substantially below the nominal 3.6v (less than 3v). If so, replace that and see if it starts.

Idk, really, I guess. Maybe it's just wishful thinking. I'd settle for a somewhat stripped down interface to be honest (since the bigger problem is likely just bloated web design or attempts to make it a one size fits all page rather than accomodating a handful of device categories. I'm pretty...

Yes, I have seen Classilla and it used to work passably for some sites (although supposedly it presents a mobile browser agent these days). However it's very, very far from new (it's built on an the foundations of an even older browser). Unfortunately I have it on my iMac G3 (333mhz) so it might...

And I can see that you are Odiously ObnoxiousTM and that further "discussion" would just be trading insults. A little of A and a little of B to be honest. At least part of what I am trying to convey is that it should be possible to convey the information they are conveying and maybe even most...

I know it's cheap, try not to be patronizing. Just because it's cheap doesn't mean I want it wasted for me on a day to day basis with no recourse except to not have  a web browser. I really doubt that the presence of javascript and the interpreter has anything to do with it. I am convinced it is...

Not sure what you're responding to. I'd like the browser to be as light on resources as possible as a general rule. My modern machine is quite capable of running multiple programs at once and I expect it to not be reduced to a single tasking machine just because the developer is lazy. I also...

I would call that a debatable statement. Nostalgic for sure, but both are fairly retro in their own ways, especially if you don't directly utilize any of the UNIX capabilities of the latter. There's plenty of software for instance that is still around but requires 10.5+ to run a recent version...

Um, use 10.4.11 and TenFourFox? Blind guess, but maybe 9 doesn't have the best support for G4? I'm guessing there's an awful lot of javascript running around and I don't think it's the javascript slowing down anything so much as the sheer volume of resources that need to be loaded and rendered...

I don't know if it does anything meaningful, especially with later models of hardware, but the book "Macintosh Repair and Upgrade Secrets" had a floppy disk with some basic diagnostic stuff of some kind for a few early macs (it mentions 128k and the SE).      Also, from a quick search on...