Right here, next to the fan:

It's upward inside the drive bay, using a single 120mm fan and rad, then I perforated the case's top sheet metal with a new grid of holes for outlet airflow. Definitely not amazing cooling performance but hey. I had to slice the CDROM drive in half to make room for it... the floppy drive actually works but not the giant CDROM lol

Encarta was absolute fire back in the day, seriously

That's right. There's an insightful blog article if you want to learn the full story.

You could get your PC upgraded for $99 if you also bought 24 months of dial-up Internet service through them. But you also had to pay shipping both ways, and be out the use of your computer while you did it! That seems so inconvenient I imagine almost nobody bothered. eMachines certainly expected people wouldn't, making the whole thing little more than a carefully calculated marketing tactic. And it worked.

That said, their machines were very competitively priced even without the upgrade deal, and it really disrupted the incumbents, making them good value machines even if you didn't take them up on the dubious "never obsolete" offer.

Yep.

Several family members had these exact 433mhz emachines with the stickers. They were not power users, they were not gamers.. They were people who typed with one finger chicken pecking to check email

iirc Silicon Graphics crts were actually trinitrons after 92-3. of course a 21" crt weighed fuck all lol

There aren’t many i386 distributions anymore, but you should still have some selection, I think

AntiX runs great on my Pentium 3 rig.

It's like DVDs. DVDs looked great in 2002, compared to VHS or even broadcast TV, your new 32 inch "big screen" never looked as good playing a DVD over S-video. That same DVD in that same player attached by HDMI to a 45 inch 4k LCD looks grainy and horrid.