[dagobart]

Well, and then there was Firefox. Which simply won't run on old hardware, at least not in a current version. And not at all to mention YouTube or anything a more powerful computer requiring site. (GMail anyone?)

As much as I love keeping old computers alive using Linux, the nowadays common way using the web puts the spoke into the wheel.

[jrockway]

the common way using the web puts the spoke into the wheel

Wheels fall apart if you take the spokes out. Pretty sure this was not the analogy you were looking for.

[icefox]

Using current browsers with fast javascript engines sites like GMail work fine on 300Mhz machines.