On Sun, 28 Feb 2016 15:56:00 -0500, John B. Smith
wrote:

I installed WindowsXP on it and have held onto that OS for dear life
ever since.

XP/SP3 offers the widest backwards compatibility, narrowing choices to
SP1. The name of game is then find old utilities for modern programs
reinventing the wheel. Programs where prior versions are listed may
help. It's the INET you're saying that's leaving you behind, which is
as intended: They, industry, wants you to upgrade and force you into
their channels of determined standards of obsolescence. For
non-alt.hardware.pc.homebuit that means: if all software, a browser,
doesn't work, therefore, the computer is busted.

Welcome to alt.computer.literacy. Learn or sink. Your options, if
you accept this mission abound. See you later in
alt.computer.hacking. Maybe. (I'm not sure if that group was
declared illegal and shut down.)