I was thinking, "Okay, he's talking about Quadras, DOS, 386s, simplefuck routing for 14.4 KBps dial-up, etc. It's old and written for newbies, fine, so what."
Then I saw "March, 1998" at the bottom and cried more.
There's better archaic Mac material to make fun of if you feel the need to, but I think this article reflects more badly on Linux than anything else. The poor guy could have just bought a $500 Apple Certified networking cable of some sort and been up and running, but Linux drove him to insane configurations of DOS-based routers and PCI cards and shit.