My first time online was 1999, in an internet café with my cousin. The machine ran Windows 98. By 2001 we had a home connection, but Windows XP had taken over. That single encounter with Windows 98 is the doorway that Garden Eternal, 如 1998 era, preserves.

The site boots a browser‑based Windows 98, dials up, and lets a modern audience browse the 1990s web with everything switched back on. It’s an experiment to see whether a machine and network from thirty years ago can be made to work again, not just viewed behind glass.

I, Khalid Alshaikh, work as a national security analyst and live in Riyadh. Beyond the old internet, the project documents recent Saudi history and hosts a live SDR receiver. 7Z1FP broadcasts 2‑metre band signals from a room built out of an era that has already gone.

The collection includes 30,164 catalogued sites from CD‑ROM and printed directories, plus a 9,070‑site Arabic directory to 2003. A Gopher hole at gopher://hp84.com/ preserves early text menus, and a Flash, Java, and VRML content that modern browsers no longer support.