Over the years, I've bought four of those $5 Raspberry Pi Zeroes (limit 1 per visit) at Microcenter. I put one to work as a
Pi-Hole, which blocks ads across our home network. (Well worth it.)
The other three I just let sit in a drawer, which I felt bad about. I mean,
a 1 GHz CPU and 512 MB RAM for $5! That's like a
Dell Inspiron with a Pentium III ($1000 alone in the Y2K) right there.
So, today, I bought $40 worth of adapters (8x the cost of the computer), dug a 5W/2A power supply out of my horrible pile of old AC adapters, and hooked it up to my old TV.
And it eventually worked! I got it on the wifi, then thought maybe I could look at some resource-light web pages like this one.
That didn't really work. The terminal is snappy, but most of the GUI stuff has a very iPhone 3G kind of vibe — you type some stuff, wonder if the OS locked up, then it responds. Just starting Firefox takes a while. (Chromium isn't even supported on the Zero W.) After you enter the url, it's tens of seconds before anything starts to render.
Though I will say it's kind of an achievement that a modern browser can (eventually) load a web page on this thing.
So, doing stuff with the web is not something I'm going to be doing with the Pi Zero, and I'll have to come up with something else.