Question Connecting laptop to the internet via phone socket nowadays?

[Thunderstorm7]

Hello everyone!!
I've got an old laptop that doesn't have any ethernet sochet. It has only a phone socket.
Is it possible to connect it to the internet via phone socket (maybe with some kind of ethernet to phone adapter).
I wanna avoid using any USB wifi adapter because their driver aren't compatibles with Windows 9X.

 

[punkncat]

You would have to have dial up service, so far as I am aware. You would have to check to see if such was even available in your area. Otherwise, I am not familiar with any type of emulator or adapter that could make a modem of that type work with current "LAN" tech.

 

[USAFRet]

Additionally, what do you plan to use this Win 9x system for?
(besides watching paint dry)

 

[Thunderstorm7]

Additionally, what do you plan to use this Win 9x system for?
(besides watching paint dry)

I'm going to mess around.
I mean, I'm keen on vintage PC and OS. I'd like that my laptop works.

 

[punkncat]

With a machine that old, will it even connect to the internet? IE does it have a browser that is still supported?

 

[USAFRet]

I'm going to mess around.
I mean, I'm keen on vintage PC and OS. I'd like that my laptop works.

Well..it "works", as in powers on.

But connecting to some online function will fail.
The applicable web browsers do not have the current https/ssl/tsl that any web service would need to see.

 

[Thunderstorm7]

With a machine that old, will it even connect to the internet? IE does it have a browser that is still supported?

My laptop has Internet Explorer. I installed Windows 98 on Virtual machine once. The internet worked, even though I couldn't open many web pages.

 

[USAFRet]

My laptop has Internet Explorer. I installed Windows 98 on Virtual machine once. The internet worked, even though I couldn't open many web pages.

There are many version of IE.
Anything applicable to Win 9x is deprecated.

And A VM is very different than the bare metal laptop.

 

[USAFRet]

Also, ask here:

Windows Legacy

forums.tomshardware.com

Users that frequent that Forum may have ideas.