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Other FGers whose trades connected them to the internet in its early days might like to join me in quiet toast to Netscape Navigator. It has been a very fine browser. All support for the program will cease on 1 February 2008.



http://browser.netscape.com/

Yes, that was the first net I ever used, and it did a great job.

Nice little browser. I used to download it on machines that had trouble with IE at work. :-6

It put up a very noble fight.. And set standards IE had to meet. I am a bit fan of Mozilla Firefox now. Yep.. Netscape!!! It opened the internet door to non-techies.

Cheers to "Netscape" it was the first browser I used as well.

It was my browser of choice for a long time. I'm a Firefox girl now but Netscape did well for me.

I generally use Opera. Works very well on my PC; I like it's features; and it seems to run better for me than Firefox, which I also think is a good one.

IE sucks, but that's stating the obvious.

Navigator was my first as well. I only use IE for Windows Update. Firefox forever.

I, Rob;754532 wrote: Navigator was my first as well. I only use IE for Windows Update. Firefox forever.


and if I had a viable alternative for updating windoze I'd delete it from every machine I ran.

This thread got all the way through ten messages and didn't mention Mosaic??Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina originally designed and programmed NCSA Mosaic for Unix's X Window System at NCSA. Funding for the development of Mosaic came from the High-Performance Computing and Communications Initiative, a program created by the High Performance Computing and Communication Act of 1991 (or The Gore Bill after its author, then-Senator Al Gore).That's the program which first allowed graphics to be embedded in a web page. That's the program which made the world wide web happen, it was right up there along with Lotus 123 and Wordstar as far as excitement goes. And it was free. What's amazing too is that Netscape came from the same Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina who'd built Mosaic, and the last thing the Netscape owners did before they sold it to AOL was to put its source out for open development as the Mozilla browser which is where Firefox came from.

spot;754578 wrote: This thread got all the way through ten messages and didn't mention Mosaic??Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina originally designed and programmed NCSA Mosaic for Unix's X Window System at NCSA. Funding for the development of Mosaic came from the High-Performance Computing and Communications Initiative, a program created by the High Performance Computing and Communication Act of 1991 (or The Gore Bill after its author, then-Senator Al Gore).That's the program which first allowed graphics to be embedded in a web page. That's the program which made the world wide web happen, it was right up there along with Lotus 123 and Wordstar as far as excitement goes. And it was free. What's amazing too is that Netscape came from the same Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina who'd built Mosaic, and the last thing the Netscape owners did before they sold it to AOL was to put its source out for open development as the Mozilla browser which is where Firefox came from.




You're right, Spot!! May I also salute other old friends - Mosaic, Lotus 123, Wordstar etc. And yeah, all the Unix stuff. (I had a UNIX box until relatively recently, actually) Bulletin boards. etc... A time when making a webpage involved writing html and the rest. Do you remember the joy of setting up tables from first principles? For fonts such as Greek letters and symbols, you made tiny graphics. In the first heady days of the WWW, I belonged to a little group which included a graphic designer from Missouri, USA, a musician from Estonia, and a few American and European programmers. We were explorers. The graphic designer showed us all how to combine photos ... and the musician showed us how to record and embed sound variations. We played our instruments into microphones and he combined wav files into harmony. We were CREATIVE.

There's hundreds of programs now that let anyone do all these things easily of course.

Okay, that was just a small new year nostalgia trip.

There's words that have gone completely out of the historical record already. Who were Archie and Veronica? Does anyone remember how to interface Wildcats through FIDO? Who remembers using JANET portals into Essex's MUD back before the IBM PC came out? I had one of the early Telecom Gold accounts in late 1982, the costs were no more terrifying than Telex had been but it gave me my first Internet gateway and it was a lot faster and more flexible at 1200/75 baud.

As for "Do you remember the joy of setting up tables from first principles", my first websites didn't have tables for the simple reason that HTML didn't have them either, tables were a huge step forward when they finally turned up though we're still stuck with the consequence of Microsoft deciding to exclude widths from page sizes, the dogs. And all of that internet design ran happily on 386s.

Does anyone else still check their site's accessibility using Lynx without a GUI besides me? I use it here on FG sometimes which still works fine which is more than can be said for a lot of other domains. I unplug my mouse and spend a day a month without it, most applications (including Lynx on FG) are just so much faster to navigate using the keyboard on its own.

Yes, Lynx!!! Grin. Happy days!!!

Linux!!!

Bryn Mawr;754537 wrote: and if I had a viable alternative for updating windoze I'd delete it from every machine I ran.


Indeed!