Browsing the Web on the Sega Dreamcast in 2022 - Is It Possible?
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Published 2022-05-21
The Sega Dreamcast was the first console to feature a built in modem out of the box, but how capable is it of browsing the web today? I fire up my broadband adapter and web browser and give it a try!
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▬ Contents of this video ▬
00:00 - Intro and History
01:48 - Setting Up Broadband Adapter
04:53 - Squarespace Sponsor Slot
06:00 - Trying The Dreamcast Web Browser
13:08 - Classic Websites
17:02 - Trying Dreamcast Sites
Sources used in this video (with permission or under fair use):
Sega Dreamcast UK advert - • Video
Sega Dreamcast "It's Thinking" Ad Campaign - 1999-2000 - • Sega Dreamcast "It's Thinking" Ad Cam...
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All Comments (21)
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In 1999 I went online with my Dreamcast (dial up) and entered a web address via the controller (no keyboard). I wanted to save the web page to read later so I videotaped the CRT using a camcorder. That seemed normal at the time 😆
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I loved the special memory cards for Dreamcast that played mini games like a tiny gameboy. Those were way ahead of their time
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I remember getting a dreamcast for Christmas when I was 8 or 9. It was SO much more advanced than the ps1 and n64 we had at the time. I had no idea it could be online
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Came for some Dreamcast, got some much more satisfying late 90s internet nostalgia. Thank you for this.
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The Sega dreamcast let me go online for the first time in my life back then . My friend back then was so jealous . The Sega dreamcast chat room was the best.
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I used to talk to my friends all night in my bedroom in the mid 2000s with a AOL Instant Messenger specifically coded for Dreamcast
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Wow, that's a blast from the past! I remember racking up a £380 phone bill from using my dreamcast online 😂 my parents were FURIOUS!
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The Dreamcast was so much fun back in the day. I remember editing images in paint on PC, uploading them to a free host and downloading them to the VMU via the DC browser to use as tags in Jet Grind Radio. I loved that feature.
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I still remember using my Dreamcast to go online for the very first time. And the sound of that dial up modem. It was like when you first lose your virginity, for the very first time. You never forget. I still own two of my Dreamcasts. And I still have a large collection of games for it. The system truly was, ahead of its time. Too bad it died so soon.
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It seems surprisingly responsive and usable for exploring the ancient web. Amazing!
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My first experience of online gaming was on the Dreamcast as I couldn't afford a PC at the time. I loved Chu Chu Rocket and Phantasy Star online :)
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I coded my first HTML on a Dreamcast when I was 12! Excellent memories getting to see my little basic webpage on the Dreamcast
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Sega Consoles were so much more powerful then ppl think. They were plagued with a poor marketing department. I had the Saturn and it was incredible. Had the Genesis also.
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This brings back a lot of memories, because the Dreamcast was my primary way to browse the internet from 1999 to 2003. I even bought the keyboard peripheral cuz I was addicted to IRC chat and newsgroups. I'd used a clunky WebTV prior to that, but I switched to the Dreamcast because the hardware was way more powerful and provided a better overall experience. The web browsing was a really nice perk at the time, since home PCs weren't omnipresent yet.
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I was born in the mid 90s and I have so much nostalgia for the old internet
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Aliweb was last updated on September 11, 2001. Reminds me of that tragedy.
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I had this console in the States about ten days before it came out. Guy from Hollywood video in green bay owed my bro a favour.. must have been one of the first in the Western world... Didn't even take a pic as proof 😭
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Back in 2001 when I got my Dreamcast, I tried to take it online. My mom saw what I was doing and immediately made me turn off the console and disconnect! It was like she just stopped a bomb from exploding! She was legitimately terrified of what was on the screen. Needless to say, we weren't really knowledgeable about what the Internet was or what it was capable of, yet.
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I won my Dreamcast in a contest when it came out. Was able to snag the coveted ethernet adapter as I was using cable internet for many years prior to that. It was neat and many websites worked fine with the browser albeit it was slow and kludgy compared to my other machines I had so never really used it much for that. Still, it was pretty neat a gaming machine had the ability to mirror what a real computer could do and not just be locked into packaged games.
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It always amazed me that in the mid to late 90s there were peripherals that would attempt or made your home console into an online browser
