Internet via Win 3.1?

[lino]

I have a 486 DX66 with 850Mb HDD and 16Mb RAM running Win 3.1.
I'd like to use it to dial-up and browse the 'net. Does this immediately conjure up phrases involving 'side', 'splitting', and 'laughter'?
If feasible, what should I do/acquire?
All the ISP packages seem to require IE 4+, and Pentium CPUs.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.

[Reid]

I had used Trumpet Winsock with Windows 3.1. This Winsock setup (http://www.asapgroup.com/support/os/win31/) shows a typical installation, but of course you need to substitute your ISP's settings and DNS numbers. You can find a lot of resources by searching with trumpet winsock 3.1, and add download to narrow down a download source. I recommend using Google (http://www.google.com) to search.

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[lino]

Reid, Many thanks.

[Paleo Pete]

It'll work, I have a P-60 running win3.11 now that can access the internet with no problems. It might not be easy to find a copy of IE 4 that will run on win3.x, but it can be found if you look. I didn't have to install anything but IE, and used IE 3.01 from my Sound Blaster 16 Driver & Utility CD. Works perfect.

Check through the CDs you already have, especially some older ones, if you browse them in Windows Explorer you'll often find goodies stashed away in a folder that you'd never know about otherwise. I have IE in different versions on about a half dozen CDs around here, and 2 or 3 have it for win3.x.

Check resale shops and garage sales for any CDs that may be around. I have installed IE 5 from an Earthlink CD without actually installing their internet service, others should be available too that have the browsers included. I've even seen game CDs that had web browsers included...

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[lino]

Paleo Pete, Using Reid's suggestion I've discovered a little-known (to me!) section of Tucows which lists Win 3x progs, including browsers,at http://classic.tucows.com/win3xsoft.html (http://http://). A few interesting hours ahead, I think.
Thanks.

[Paleo Pete]

Don't know what happened to your link, it comes up as http://http:// and the good old "Cannot find Page" page.

SimTel (http://www.simtel.net/) might also have some good downloads for win3.x. Worth spending some time looking around, one of my favorites for a long time. Tucows has been a favorite for ages too, plenty good stuff there as well.

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