Get a pci wifi crad or a pci usb card and a usb wifi and install ddwrt and make it a router. Or make it into a digital picture frame there are lots of link for that on HAD.
You could set it up with a couple of external hard drives (you will have to upgrade it to win 98 however) and then install a bit-torrent client (utorrent would be great because of it's web interface). Then you could set it up as a bit torrent server. Using the web interface you could add torrents for download and then stream those to other systems in the household.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.