Now I'm wondering why you were running this in 2019. I watch a lot of nostalgia game reviews on Youtube and get the serious urge to build a '90s era computer from time to time.
Same here. Running some ancient OS/software in a VM can be pretty satisfying though, especially since I don't have a whole lot of space for physical hardware.
Many games wouldn't work well in a VM, of course, there's no getting around that.
Browsers never displayed such a pop-up for cookies by default. You had to tweak settings, just as you do today (in today’s world it might require a browser extension, I don’t know).
I don’t think this is true. I recall this being taken on the default settings for that web browser. Web browsers like IE in that era showed scary pop-ups for all sorts of things - like there would be a pop-up for when you connected to a site over https!