The data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/nvidia-nearly-went-out-of-business-in-1996-trying-to-make-segas-dreamcast-gpu-instead-sega-americas-ceo-offered-the-company-a-dollar5-million-lifeline” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/nvidia-nearly-went-out-of-business-in-1996-trying-to-make-segas-dreamcast-gpu-instead-sega-americas-ceo-offered-the-company-a-dollar5-million-lifeline”>Sega Dreamcast’s built-in web browser was data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.tomshardware.com/how-to/block-google-ai-overviews” target=”_blank” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.tomshardware.com/how-to/block-google-ai-overviews”>killed data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.tomshardware.com/how-to/block-google-ai-overviews” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.tomshardware.com/how-to/block-google-ai-overviews”>by Google earlier this week. In less dramatic terms, data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tag/google” data-auto-tag-linker=”true” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tag/google”>Google closed a PlanetWeb browser compatibility window that had somehow remained ajar for a quarter-century. While a raft of Google services no longer respond properly to the Dreamcast’s ancient SSL/TLS stack, fan-made search engines and online gaming servers remain available, so internet-connected Dreamcast stalwarts aren’t entirely doomed.

The data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/nvidia-nearly-went-out-of-business-in-1996-trying-to-make-segas-dreamcast-gpu-instead-sega-americas-ceo-offered-the-company-a-dollar5-million-lifeline” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/nvidia-nearly-went-out-of-business-in-1996-trying-to-make-segas-dreamcast-gpu-instead-sega-americas-ceo-offered-the-company-a-dollar5-million-lifeline”>Sega Dreamcast’s built-in web browser was data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.tomshardware.com/how-to/block-google-ai-overviews” target=”_blank” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.tomshardware.com/how-to/block-google-ai-overviews”>killed data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.tomshardware.com/how-to/block-google-ai-overviews” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.tomshardware.com/how-to/block-google-ai-overviews”>by Google earlier this week. In less dramatic terms, data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tag/google” data-auto-tag-linker=”true” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tag/google”>Google closed a PlanetWeb browser compatibility window that had somehow remained ajar for a quarter-century. While a raft of Google services no longer respond properly to the Dreamcast’s ancient SSL/TLS stack, fan-made search engines and online gaming servers remain available, so internet-connected Dreamcast stalwarts aren’t entirely doomed.