Source: https://there.oughta.be/
30 years later and your Gameboy can finally download the interwebs. Ok, not really, but Sebastian Staacks actually built a WiFi cartridge for the Gameboy.
His 32kiB cart has an ESP8266 inside which does all the heavy lifting regarding protocols, communication and data transform. Of course, there is no fully fledged browser and probably never will be, but you can build your very own Twitter or Reddit client or connect to anything else, that communicates via HTTP or Telnet.
Sebastian gives away all the details for free. And if you actually want to build your own WiFi cartridge, you find all the details in his article.
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