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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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| + | 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. | ||
| - | ===== Setup Instructions ===== | + | 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. |
| - | 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. | + | |
| - | 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 web browser that supports HTTP Proxy, but we have a list of tested and [[Features|supported web browsers]] which you may want to visit. You will need to configure your web browser to use [[servers|our proxy server]]. |
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| + | We currently have the following web browsers instructions covered: | ||
| * Internet Explorer 3.0 | * Internet Explorer 3.0 | ||
| * Netscape Navigator 4.0 | * Netscape Navigator 4.0 | ||
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| - | ==== Netscape Navigator 4.0 ==== | + | ===== Netscape Navigator 4.0 ===== |
| * Go to **Edit** => **Preferences** | * Go to **Edit** => **Preferences** | ||
| * Under **Advanced**, open **Proxies** | * Under **Advanced**, open **Proxies** | ||
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| - | ===== Internet Explorer 6.0 ===== | ||
| - | * Is tested and supported. Instructions will follow. | ||
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| ===== Other Web Browsers ===== | ===== Other Web Browsers ===== | ||
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