About five or six years ago I found an old CD of Windows ME. Having moved on from Windows 95 to NT, 2000 and so forth, I was curious about it. Needless to say, even a few years ago getting on the web with Windows ME out of the box was broken. I eventually found a version of Opera I think which was new enough that I was able to use the Internet. More recently I read of someone using a SOCKS proxy to make using the Internet more functional for an older machine.