Before Netscape: Web browsers of the early 1990s (2011)
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Before Netscape: Web browsers of the early 1990s (2011)
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Re: Before Netscape: Web browsers of the early 1990s (2011)
#2I 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.
Re: Before Netscape: Web browsers of the early 1990s (2011)
#3Anyone here ever used the web-browser that comes with GeoWorks/New Deal? Pretty amazing software. In the late 90's I was studying in Poland. In the computer lab of my dorm there were two Windows PCs and half a dozen text terminals. People were always waiting to use the more modern machines. The terminals were only good for e-mail (via telnet). They were XT-class machines with Hercules graphics. One day I decided to put a copy of GeoWorks on one of them. From then on I could always surf the web whenever I want. People were quite amazed to see a full GUI on a 12" monochrome screen.
Re: Before Netscape: Web browsers of the early 1990s (2011)
#4I 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.
And now you can access all that, faster than ever, with multimedia including all the fixings from a device that fits in your pocket.
Re: Before Netscape: Web browsers of the early 1990s (2011)
#5How about the forget tradition of Netscape developers dunking their heads in toilets?
Re: Before Netscape: Web browsers of the early 1990s (2011)
#6There were so many more of these, many will remember HotJava but what about Oracle's entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_PowerBrowser
Re: Before Netscape: Web browsers of the early 1990s (2011)
#7I quite liked Arena and Chimera (the Xaw one, not the predecessor of Camino) in my early Linux days. Although Netscape 2/3 quickly took over.
Re: Before Netscape: Web browsers of the early 1990s (2011)
#8I 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.
> I remember the first time I saw Mosaic...
Likewise. I remember vividly seeing Mosaic for the first time, running on a SPARCstation workstation at university, circa 93. I had been using gopher and lynx for a few months (and BBSes for years before that), but seeing a browser loading a page - with graphics and colors! - was a pivotal experience for me.
(I know, "graphics" is an overstatement, given it meant gimmicky static images at the time, at best. I don't think even tables were available yet)
Re: Before Netscape: Web browsers of the early 1990s (2011)
#9I quite liked Arena and Chimera (the Xaw one, not the predecessor of Camino) in my early Linux days. Although Netscape 2/3 quickly took over.
That Chimera was pretty nice, all right:
http://freshmeat.sourceforge.net/projects/chimera-www
In a similar category, but using Gtk, was Ralph Levien's gzilla https://www.levien.com/gzilla/
Re: Before Netscape: Web browsers of the early 1990s (2011)
#10Cello was the first graphical browser I used after Lynx for a short while. Though I appreciated the graphics in Cello, I did initially find the Web (graphics or just text) to be messy compared to the much more orderly Gopher. Once I started dabbling with HTML and made a crude site for my employer, I quickly went from office clerk to webmaster. At that point Gopher was pretty much forgotten.