The iBook G3 on the modern web

So I got myself this really sick iBook G3 the other day on eBay for just £44. It's absolutely MINT for its age. It has a 800mhz CPU and a DVD combo drive. What a score! Idk what it is about the iBook G3 specifically, but I've always wanted one. As a kid I used to collect vintage macs. I never got to have vintage Mac laptops though, even though I was tempted. For reasons I dont understand: I was always particularly keen on either the iBook G3 or the Powerbook G4. The iBook G4 just always felt a little boring to me? Not sure why.

The day had finally come to fulfill kid jessie's dreams! I got a Tiger DMG and popped it onto a USB drive and with a bit of hacky fuckery, I got it to boot. I got Tiger installed as I felt it would be my best bet in seeing what she was still capable of. I spend a lot of time thinking about how weird it is, especially in the last 10 years, that we have generally very powerful devices that get so slow and clogged up doing the most simple of tasks after only a few years. Planned obsolescence, sure. But also, just general overbloating of the internet and survielance capitlaism ruining everything too.

Obviously, I don't expect an 800mhz G3 CPU to sail through modern day internet, even less so on a browser woefully out of date. But when we think of the essence of what the internet is: simple HTML and CSS, its sad to think that these previously capable machines are just rendered useless by the modern internet.