I have an old imac ruby..What can I do with it?

I have an old imac ruby.. it's been sitting in my attic for years.. Would I be able to bust that out and get it working for my son? He's 5 and would mostly be using it for internet, and learning games, even videos if possible.. Or is that totally impossible? Is it possible to get it set up to work with fios internet? I'm thinking a resounding no, but not sure what to do with such a pretty retro piece of technology.. Any suggestions? If there is no use for it, are there any good ways to get rid of it?
The following are the specs written on the outside of the computer:
Model #- M 5521 DHHS Code: SA ruby 450MHZ 20GB HD/DVD/192 MB SDRAM MDM US EN KYBD/MAC OS
It also has an "ethernet" ID...

I think you are a little pessemistic about this machine.
The best approach would be playing lots of games and running educational software.
With more workd and dollars...
You can get on the Internet with this machine will be slow with modern site, but will work find. Will not do video on the web.
You could max out the memory to 1gig. Could install 10.4 and use TenFourFox as your web browser.
Be sure to update the firmware before installing Mac OS X.
You could buy an external DVD drive. It needs to be firewire and bootable by Mac OS. If you have another PPC with firewire, you could try target Disk mode and installed tiger that way.
You need to figure out the level of your firmware before installing 10.2 or greater. ( The PC name for firmware is BIOS. ) Installing 10.2 with a down level firmware will most likely make your iMac unusable and difficult to fix.
What is Open Firmware?
The firmware on a PPC is called Open Firmware. Open Firmware software receives control when you poweron your machine. It does some hardware testing and some hardware configuration then passes control to your version of Mac OS. It reside on a PROM ( program read only memory ) chip on the logic board.
Figuring out what level of Open Firmware you have?
1) Mac OS 9.x or 8.x, you need to use the Apple System Profiler.
Apple -> Apple System Profiler
Restore Tiger 10.4 & Leopard 10.5 DVDs are available from Apple by calling 800-767-2775 as of January 20, 2013.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4720126?tstart=0

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