Features

ALTERNET serves older (circa 90's) web sites. It is the easiest way to browse the Internet as it appeared in it's early days.

Access to thousands of web sites from the early years of the Internet, that have been reconstructed for historical accuracy
Supports networked vintage computers
Thousands of downloads
Working historical search engines

Supported web browsers

Our services have been tested to work with the following OS/web browser combinations:

OS	Product Name	Version	Status
MS-DOS	Arachne	1.97	Supported
Windows 3.1 (16-bit)	Microsoft Internet Explorer	1.0	Not Tested
		2.0	Not Tested
		3.0	Supported
	Mosaic Netscape	0.9 beta	Not Tested
	Netscape Navigator	1.0	Not Tested
		2.0	Not Tested
		3.0	Supported
		3.0 Gold	Supported
Windows 9x (32-bit)	Microsoft Internet Explorer	1.0	Not Tested
		2.0	Not Tested
		3.0	Supported
		4.0	Supported
		5.0	Supported
		5.5	Supported
		7.0	Supported
		8.0	Supported
		9.0	Supported
		10.0	Supported
		11.0	Supported
	Mosaic Netscape	0.9 beta	Not Tested
	Netscape Navigator	1.0	Not Tested
		2.0	Not Tested
		3.0	Supported
		3.0 Gold	Supported
	Netscape Communicator	4.0	Supported
	Netscape Communicator	4.5	Supported
	NCSA Mosaic	1.0	Not Tested
		2.0	Not Tested
		3.0	Not Tested

HTTP support	100%	Complete!
FTP support	100%	Complete!
Gopher support	0%	Not implemented	Plans are for a future release
News client support	0%	Not implemented	Plans are for a future release
Telnet services	0%	Not implemented	Plans are for a future release
System generated error pages	100%	Complete!	System reports proper error conditions to the web browser.
System generated file index	100%	Complete!
CGI script handling	100%	Complete!
MIME types	90%	Mostly done	MIME type reporting handled mostly correctly.
Search engines	40%	In progress	Core search engine. Partial functionality with historical Yahoo search.