Help with old laptop

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Today at the flea market i found a laptop of these specs as a second hand computer. It has these specs

Processor- 120Mhz Pentium Processor
Memory- 16MB [Upgradable to 24MB]
Hard Drive- 1.0GB Hard Drive
Operating System- Windows 95B

Now if i want to get wireless internet i would have to upgrade to Windows 98 for wireless card support. [Unless of course i find a linux distro to complies with my linksys router.] I talked to the sales man and i could also find myself a converter via serial port for USB support.

Now if i have this computer slimmed down to bare minimal would it be a good online computer.[ With Antivirus and other programs running.]

Probably not.

I don`t know. I had a friend running firefox off a 100Mhz Pentium with no problems using a D-Link Card. Wasn`t flashy when it came to stuff like online games but run all the basic stuff.

It will probably just about work, but will be pretty slow, especially if you are looking at pages with a lot of images or animation.

Well if it helps with a bios update i can upgrade the memory to 64MB. I could also get a 5GB Hard Drive to install on it. Though i`m not going to be on a lot of websites like youtube so i`m not worried.

Those specifications are similar to those of a laptop that I had around 2001. It was a Compaq with Windows 95C and 64 MBRAM. It was a great Internet and music-playing machine then. I ended up selling it in a garage sale (to, get this, a Mark Twain impersonator who wanted to use it to write his acts) because of its small 10.1" screen, which isn't really a problem if you need portability. (I wanted a desktop.) Problem areas I could see with using that same laptop on the net nowadays might be with processor intensive things on the Internet such as Flash and Facebook (and the like). More RAM is always good, and I would definitely max out the RAM on the laptop if possible.

Windows 95 is also pretty fast in terms of GUI responsiveness on PCs that were top of the line for its time. Some USB devices will work with 95C. Also, if you like the browser-style Windows Explorer, you may want to upgrade Windows 95C.

You could use something like slackware pretty effectivley on a machine like that for internet browsing.