- 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
Yes 100%! Some other regular HTTP sites that run great on old hardware are:
* http://theoldnet.com/
* http://68k.news/
* http://weather.maniac.com/