What Can You Do With Your Old Computer? [aboutcomputer99.blogspot.com]

What Can You Do With Your Old Computer? [aboutcomputer99.blogspot.com]

Question by fifty: Can ten year old computers with 2G hard drives and Windows 98 still access the Internet? We have one new computer on the Internet but our Earthlink connection filled the hard drives of the two old computers, so I had to disconnect them. It seems that it downloaded Internet files onto our hard drives and even though I disabled this feature (Accelerator), it still filled our hard drives. Now we are switching to DSL. There is one gig available on one of the old computers. I don't know whether I can install the DSL software using this one gig, whether it can be installed on an external drive (or whether it must be in the programs file) or whether there will be any other issues. Any advice would be appreciated. I don't have any web browsers on these computers. So could I use a new web browser on these computers? Best answer for Can ten year old computers with 2G hard drives and Windows 98 still access the Internet?:

Answer by bob_geldoff19
Yes they can although your web browser might be a bit old.

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Many people have an old computer around the home that still functions but is just not being used. There are many things that you can actually do with this old computer that are very practical so that it can be used again.

One thing that you can do is get it working again so that your kids have a computer that they can use. Many times with everyone wanting to be on the internet for different reasons, computers tend to have to be shared. If you use your old one as well, it means that more can be online for fun or school.

This old computer can turn into your media center. You don't need a high power device for this. Connect it to your television and use it to watch online video, play digital content, and even play music through your home sound system.

Your old machine can also become your network's storage device. Many people have a home network now with shared files between the computers on that network. With your old computer you can keep backups and o ther files on it to save space on your primary machine.

If you don't have an operating system that is working with your old machine, you can install Linux on it. While this might sound complicated, it's much easier to do now than ever before. Download and burn the CD from a popular distribution like Ubuntu and get your old computer running again.

One option if you don't have a need for the computer is to donate it. There are many places like schools always looking for equipment.

If you don't want to do this, be sure that you at least recycle the parts versus just throwing it away. There are things inside the computer that can be reused and a few chemicals and metals that aren't best to just be thrown out.

If you have an old computer just sitting around, it's far from useless. Learn a few things that you can be doing with this old machine.

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