Wandering Adventure Party

there's something beautifully wrong about trying to advertise copilot to a windows 98 machine.

yay got one working

it has IE4.

BUT THAT CAN BE FIXED

I think the main problem is that I really, really need a working win98, which is the ie5/ie6 sweet spot.

maybe if I try patch9x on one of them it'll stop erroring

IE7? HOW MANY INTERNET EXPLORERS DO I HAVE

ie3? wrong direction, but it's a datapoint I guess

IE8? huh. I'll take it I guess

okay I've succeeded using:
* Netscape 4
* IE4

now I just need to find a (WORKING) VM with IE5 and IE6

I love how old internet explorer pops up dialog boxes when javascript breaks.

such an optimistic view of the future of the web, where we expected JS to actually work all the time

real handy if you want to browse some intranet sites over NetBIOS

you'd think they'd make IE require that TCP/IP be installed, but nope

one of the weirder design decisions of windows 95:

you can have internet explorer installed on a system that does not support TCP/IP.

once again, what should be a simple project is ruined by the unreliability of old windows in virtualbox

I stuck a redirect on one of my shorter domains but I'm ending up on foone.org

what? is IE4 not sending a host header? that makes no sense

I need to build a bunch of qemu VMs for various windowses.

virtualbox is just too fucking unreliable

WHY ARE BOTH OF MY WINDOWS 98 VMs BROKEN

I should make a keyboard that just types this string for me

fun fact! if you typo a URL on IE4, it erases the address bar and now you have to type it all over again

why is the page I'm testing on multiple VMs (with no copy/paste) using a 97-character URL?

better question: are there any link shorteners that will still work on Netscape Navigator 4?