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| ====== Getting Started with ALTERNET ====== | ====== Getting Started with ALTERNET ====== | ||
| - | 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. | ||
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| - | ===== Setup Instructions ===== | + | ===== Instructions ===== |
| - | To begin, you will need to connect your vintage machine to the Internet. Connecting using Virtual Modem is supported if you would like to emulate the dial-up sequence on a Windows 3.11 or Windows 95/98 computer. You may use the [[Guides:Virtual Modem|Raspberry Pi Virtual Modem]] guide to set up a virtual modem. Note! Using Virtual Modem is NOT required. | + | To begin, you will need to connect your vintage computer to your network and set it up so that it has access to the Internet. |
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| + | Connecting using Virtual Modem is optionally supported if you would like to emulate the dial-up sequence on a Windows 3.11 or a Windows 95/98 computer. If you would like to use the Virtual Modem, you may use the [[Guides:Virtual Modem|Raspberry Pi Virtual Modem]] guide to set it up. | ||
| You can use any of the [[Features|supported web browsers]]. You will need to tell your web browser to use [[servers|a special proxy server]]. We currently have the following web browser instructions covered: | You can use any of the [[Features|supported web browsers]]. You will need to tell your web browser to use [[servers|a special proxy server]]. We currently have the following web browser instructions covered: | ||
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