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by scarface_74 1085 days ago
Does your old Netbook have only 256MB of RAM and 500Mhz processor?
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Because if so, that's enough to run 4 simultaneous instances of Linux!
How well will that work with the modern web and modern web browsers?
Great! On paper it could handle Apache and NGINX like a charm, your modern web browsers would have no trouble accessing it.
What does that have to do with running a modern web browser on a device with 256MB RAM and a single core 500Mhz processor?
Nothing. Linux isn't a web browser.

It will still work just fine with your modern web browsers though, as a server.

So now I’m going to put an open source operating system on my first gen 256MB RAM iPad to run a web server and that’s the same functionality I had in 2010 when I was using it to browse the then modern web?