Windows 95

Today, I was bored and decided to mess around in a Windows 95 VM. But first, I wanna deliver some sad news. Google finally removed HTTP support. If you're wondering what I mean by that, Google formerly supported plain HTTP, as in, you didn't even need a secure connection to use the basic services, like... you know, Googling. This made it accessible on ancient ass devices and operating systems, like Windows 95. I reckon with all they've been doing (like with Gemini or whatever that thing's called), they got sick of maintaining it. Sad to see it go.

The minimum browser version got bumped up by a massive margin. Now, it takes browser versions from the early 2010s to use Google, like Internet Explorer 10, for example. Not even Windows 7 is enough for the job. I'm more attached to legacy systems than most, I suppose. I find old GUIs charming, though anything before Windows 95 and it's clunky, I don't really like Windows 1.0 to 3.1 for that reason.

What about this website? Well, considering it's literally using HTTP at this very moment, it still supports browsers from the 90s. However, most of the time, I outsource images to other websites because my internet is weak. Those other websites tend to use HTTPS, more often than not, and that means Windows 9x won't be able to load those images. I don't know if I'm supposed to be using other websites as my own shitty personal CDN, but damn it, it works and I'm gonna do it anyway.

You won't find very many HTTP websites these days, though. I can name a grand total of three off the top of my head: this one, OldVersion, and FrogFind or whatever the hell it was called. Granted, HTTP isn't secure, and HTTPS is a far better option. I only use it here because I'm too broke to afford Portmap's premium tier. Damn bullshit cashgrab. Fortunately, no sensitive information ever gets sent over this website, so it's fine. If I ever wanted to add logging in, we'd have a problem.

Toodaloo. I think that's how you spell that. Who cares.

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