I was video chatting a friend of mine with absolutely zero tech knowledge and he bought this laptop from 2008 and couldn't figure out why no websites looked right.
He was using an unupdated stock internet explorer. It was wild
Possible doxx, also gigachad using Windows 98, huge flex :gigachad-hd:
also gigachad using Windows 98,
that's how you know he's a Russian Engineer
i find it sort of funny how this website has basically no HTML code to it. its just a monolithic javascript program with enough html wrapping to let a web browser ship it to clients
press
CTRL + SHIFT + ito see what i mean(clicks CTRL + SHIFT + i)
Whoooaaaaaa......I've no idea what I'm looking at.
It's like buying a text book that has one of those attached cds but when you open the book all the pages are blank except for the first one that just has the sentence "load the cd into your pc".
Holy shit. Just a bunch of empty <div> containers while AJAX runs screaming in the background.
i wonder how hard it would be to write a hexbear/lemmy proxy for older/low resource devices
I'm amazed that Firefox 48 was even available for a system that old. If it did load, your machine would probably be out of memory trying to run all the JavaScript.
technically it shouldnt be able to, but thanks to a community project called KernelEx you can run new(er) versions of software then you should normally be able to on win98SE
Huh, it's like Wine for Windows. Always wild to me how much time and energy is spent by 3rd party devs getting Windows shit to work right.
Same result with Internet Explorer 11 on Windows 10 :sadness: Same empty <div id="app"> and the script.
