WELL GUESS WHAT! The Browservice developer actually added (on 13th Feb) support for file uploads! Now you can totally make that followup, I'd love to watch it. Enjoyed this video, too! EDIT: Maybe, if you're really going to make a followup, you should also try to _make_ a video in Win 98. Not sure how, but it would be interesting for sure.
Can we just take a moment to appreciate that this man used internet explorer through a chromium browser disguised as Firefox. He is like: -which browser to use? -ALL OF THEM
Considering that RU-vid launched in 2005, and windows 98 still had 0.18% market share in 2009, it is quite likely that there are already some videos on RU-vid that have already been published from windows 98
I'm guessing the reason the "select files" button doesn't work is because it's opening up a "browse for file" dialog on the computer that actually requested it, which would be the Browservice comp, not the w98 machine. So the screenshots that gets forwarded to the w98 machine only see renders of the page, not the actual desktop the Browservice is running on. And.. even if it did forward the screenshots of the "browse for file" dialog, it would display the files on the raspberry, not the w98 machine.
@@zank8470 4k is 2160p... 1080p (the number 1080, not the total number of pixels) is half of 2160p, so it would make sense for that to be 2k. Perhaps, then, using the same logic, 1k would be 540p.
You also can change the UA of your browser to some old smartphone's UA, so every site will be in mobile version. Mobile version is lighter, made for low-resolution screens and using less modern features. I use it on my old Atom laptop
Now I'm looking for ways to surf web "comfortable" with very slow connection like "E", to stay online even far away from civilization I think there are ways to disable most of media on a webpage and leave only text and empty fields instead of any other content For example there is a flag in Firefox settings to download images only if you click at one,
It's easy. User Agent strings are basically a piece of text that a browser has that shows websites which browser you're using. You can change that to make Google think you're using Firefox.
@@RealmyTheMan I mean, I figured Google would sooner or later be more aggressive about blocking browsers they don't like, and there are tons of ways to fingerprint a browser. I assume just faking the user agent won't be enough at some point.
Hey, I know this is super late after you uploaded this video; but did you know that you can upload videos to youtube via the API? You could write a python script to run on the machine that will upload a video without having to go through the GUI. I'm not sure if this goes beyond the scope of the requirements you were setting for the challenge but it might be a nice avenue to try if it doesn't! :-)
I believe he was using IE 5 here which is available for Win95 so that won't be any more of a problem. There's even IE5 for Windows 3.1 but that's only 5.0, not the later 5.5. It would probably still work, though.
Try Retrozilla, I've seen a youtube video published with this browser, and it worked. It also works on windows 95, not just on 98 (it was uploaded from windows 95, not just published.)
I have a $4000 Falcon Northwest windows XP machine operational right now. I was wondering if you were interested in doing a video on that era of gaming. Got a lot to say. Thanks Michael.
future suggestion: i challenge you to get some form of internet communication on windows 1.x/2.x series in 2021 even if its like a bulletin board. also i guess i am your 40,000th viewer for this video... cool!
I know this is completely unrelated and a bit unbelievable but the song that started playing at the start of the video was the exact same as the song that was playing in the video I was watching previously, which was being used to test speakers. It even says in that video that the song is called "Walk Through The Park" by TrackTribe.
We all thought that Windows 98 was about to be completely dead. But in 2021, It’s Back. And you can use modern internet. Windows 98 is alive and thanks to Browservice, I predict that usage of 98 will increase high until reaching Windows 7 or 8
The New systems allow you to watch right from the browser, Otherwise, there's a RU-vid app available in the eShop. WARNING: The 3DS eShop may close next year.
Actually the RU-vid webpage you've seen in Windows 98's IE browser is rendered on your raspberry pi, the IE browser just takes the render result(png) and shows it. Changing UA actually doesnot solving the problem, the raspberry pi does.
That's only an option if your 98 PC is capable of running XP. Officially XP needs a 233MHz CPU with 64MB of RAM which most but not all 98 machines meet. However the actual true minimum for XP is lower, namely any Pentium with at least 18MB of RAM. If you have a 486 running 98 you can't upgrade it to XP.
Damn isn't scary how horrendous modern websites look on Classic OS and Displays? The new design of RU-vid is so damn big that i even have to zoom out on my browser to make it look normal again. I didn't mind the "new" flat design introduced with iOS 7, but this.. this is just crazy.
In 2010-2012 RU-vid worked in Windows 98 on my Pentium III without any additions like Browservice... Opera 9.x-10.x was relatively actual at that time.
Why can't a modern browser be made to run on Windows 98 though? There's already a full-blown Win32 API there and a powerful x86 architecture, so virtually everything should be possible there.
Windows 98 is officially the second oldest version of Windows that I've seen run RU-vid. The oldest version of Windows that I've seen run RU-vid is Windows NT 4.0.
My first idea for this would have been to would be to try use the RU-vid api directly to upload a video, and like write it in maybe C w CURL or something
Tried to learn how to use BeautifulSoup and Requests in Python 3 about 18 months ago - knew a webpage worked but it was returning nothing. Spoofed the User-Agent and worked instantly. A lot of sites seem to depend on the UA string.
Oh gosh that spinning globe logo in the top right corner hahaha nostalgia Technically you were just using Windows 98 as a remote access terminal for the Browservice browser.
When you were at the upload screen, it said you can drag and drop the video. If you were to do that instead of clicking the button, would it work? Probably not but I still wanna know.
