[anthk]

- gopher browser -> gopher://magical.fish as a portal

- HN can be read at gopher://hngopher.com

- irc -> bitlbee.org to chat with anyone, even IRC with TLS itself. Kirc will run on any potato.

- a high end 486 it's needed to play MP3's. Either that or burn your favourites into CD's.

- sc-im+gnuplot/emacs' ses+gnulot

- srln+slrnpull

- telescope/sacc can do gopher fine. gemini can be stalled.

- sfeed+links to read news. Altough gmane.io and gwene.io can relay mail lists and RSS feeds as NNTP groups and then your might slrn will just read all news happily in a 486 (or less).

- translate -> simply translate

- Reuters -> http://neuters.de

[accrual]

Yes 100%! Some other regular HTTP sites that run great on old hardware are:

* http://theoldnet.com/

* http://68k.news/

* http://weather.maniac.com/