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There were so many more of these, many will remember HotJava but what about Oracle's entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_PowerBrowser
I remember the first time I saw Mosaic - a friend of mine was reading a digital graphic novel. I was absolutely gobsmacked at how incredible that was: not only did someone create something in a country far from mine, I was able to look at it in my home—perhaps minutes after its creation. So quickly, we become accustomed to the amazing.
Looking at the second screenshot in this article (the one titled "An early CERN Web browser, circa 1990"), I feel this is what I'd like the modern web to be: crisp, clean, high density information, using colors only where it is relevant. Modern web pages have become a seizure-inducing cacophony of colors, fonts, animations, ads, videos and intrusive modals ("please sign up", "subscribe to our newsletter", "do you acc…
I'm going to get flamed for this but, if all you're interested in is the text, you could do worse than Lynx. I mean, it's not pretty, but it does get to the point. For sites that absolutely require JavaScript to load content you're screwed, but it does a surprisingly decent job on many others. Can be helpful if you need to avoid becoming distracted.
How about the forget tradition of Netscape developers dunking their heads in toilets? http://totic.org/nscp/swirl/swirl.html
This maybe a little off topic but... wait what? CERN had their own OS? What was its name?
NeXTStep, Steve Jobs made a company NeXT after being kicked out from Apple. This OS became the foundation of the Mac OSX. [1] Aside from NeXTStep, it was even before Linux was born. There were many historic BSD derivatives in that moment. [1]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/473758/what-does-the-ns-...
Sounds like this was pre-NeXT, or at least on another in-house OS. It would be interesting to see what it was all about.
Looking at the second screenshot in this article (the one titled "An early CERN Web browser, circa 1990"), I feel this is what I'd like the modern web to be: crisp, clean, high density information, using colors only where it is relevant. Modern web pages have become a seizure-inducing cacophony of colors, fonts, animations, ads, videos and intrusive modals ("please sign up", "subscribe to our newsletter", "do you acc…
Most people want images. Most people want more than images, they want video.
You just need to look at news sites, the main Reddit page or the Facebook feed of a regular person.
What techies want is far removed from what the majority of people want.
Similar story with free products (regular people) and privacy (techies).
Looking at the second screenshot in this article (the one titled "An early CERN Web browser, circa 1990"), I feel this is what I'd like the modern web to be: crisp, clean, high density information, using colors only where it is relevant. Modern web pages have become a seizure-inducing cacophony of colors, fonts, animations, ads, videos and intrusive modals ("please sign up", "subscribe to our newsletter", "do you acc…
> I feel this is what I'd like the modern web to be: crisp, clean, high density information, using colors only where it is relevant. Most people want images. Most people want more than images, they want video. You just need to look at news sites, the main Reddit page or the Facebook feed of a regular person. What techies want is far removed from what the majority of people want. Similar story with free products (regu…
What's true is that images & video are effective distractors, and most content "servers" want impressions and ad clicks. I don't think this means that most visitors/readers are necessarily looking for image-/video-heavy content.
The likes of Youtube, etc. may be an exception (where it's clear people have come to the site looking specifically for a video), but even there, the suggested videos sidebar, etc. are not things that visitors necessarily ask for/want, but rather things that benefit advertisers in terms of user attention.
This idea that techies are a different species to "normal people" is an overused red herring. Of course every user/demographic has their different preferences, but generally speaking the only difference with "techies" in this particular instance is awareness: due to familiarity with the medium, they are more deliberate in what they want—and more conscious of image-/video-heavy content being a distraction from what they're looking for—than the average user. This doesn't necessarily mean they're actually looking for different things.
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I'm going to get flamed for this but, if all you're interested in is the text, you could do worse than Lynx. I mean, it's not pretty, but it does get to the point. For sites that absolutely require JavaScript to load content you're screwed, but it does a surprisingly decent job on many others. Can be helpful if you need to avoid becoming distracted.
I actually used text based browsers as my main thing for a few weeks, when I had really bad internet. Ran it thru ssh on a VPS, much faster that way. I found the w3m browser gave the best formatting and mouse support.
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> I feel this is what I'd like the modern web to be: crisp, clean, high density information, using colors only where it is relevant. Most people want images. Most people want more than images, they want video. You just need to look at news sites, the main Reddit page or the Facebook feed of a regular person. What techies want is far removed from what the majority of people want. Similar story with free products (regu…
I don't believe that this is true. What's true is that images & video are effective distractors, and most content "servers" want impressions and ad clicks. I don't think this means that most visitors/readers are necessarily looking for image-/video-heavy content. The likes of Youtube, etc. may be an exception (where it's clear people have come to the site looking specifically for a video), but even there, the suggest…
People didn't want MySpace, but they don't want HackerNews, either. They want Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat, Reddit.
I think it's about time we accept that. People want colors, want animations, want life.
Bland, static and lifeless is as annoying to them as super colorful and dynamic.
Ok, so I really used 2400bps and later 14k4 all the way up to 56k (speed!) for IP based traffic. It didn't take long using 300bps to demonstrate the wisdom of upgrading.