When your game console was the family's only way onto the web (vale.rocks)
The Dreamcast, Wii, DS and Wii U all shipped browsers, many powered by Opera scaling its engine onto tiny hardware. The Wii U turned its GamePad bookmark menu into a literal animated book.
The nostalgia carried a real complaint: we lost console browsers just when they'd be useful — one network admin wishes he could still run a speed test from a console to debug support calls.
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