Internet, even with modern TLS, is surprisingly usable on m68k machines. I recently played around with a contemporary web browser on my 25 MHz m68030 Amiga 3000 with AmigaDOS 3.2.1, and it was almost usable. I bet it'd fly on an '040.
ClassicHasClass has helped to keep SO MANY systems much more usable than the world would have us believe. Good work, and thank you!
The Crypto Ancienne library which this uses has this to say about 68030:
> Even built with -O3, our little NetBSD Macintosh IIci with a 25MHz 68030 and no L2 card took 22 seconds (give carl the -t option to disable timeouts) for a single short TLS 1.2 transaction to a local test server; a number of Internet hosts we tested it with simply cut the connection instead of waiting. Rude!
Are you sure that's "almost usable"?
I wonder how practical it would be to build cards for these older machines that have hardware acceleration for various things like TLS, and perhaps also decoders for JPEG, PNG, etc. Also wonder if it would make more sense to implement this with decoder chips and a cheap ARM chip or an FPGA of some kind.