RasterWeb: Rambles: oldbrowsers

The 'dark ages'?

So I was cleaning up my old machine, and I happened to stumble across an old version (1.0.3) of NCSA Mosaic! So I fired it up to take a look, and I gotta say, I was kinda impressed. Remember the Hotlist? (aka Bookmarks or Favorites) and the ability to annotate things with text or *audio!* Nice features! Sure it doesn't support tables, or those fancy background colors, and no Plug-Ins, just 'Helpers', of course it probably runs in about 1mb of RAM... I also fired up MacWeb (there was also WinWeb, at the time) the release date was August of 1994. I'm pretty sure Mosaic was 1994 also...

I didn't get to check out my favorite sites (it's not on a network, no modem either) I'm sure they'd all look pretty bad, except maybe Yahoo, which hasn't got much fancier since 1994. (Remember when it was on akebono?) And there were *no* graphics on the page? Of course it wasn't all good... remember when we had to test our sites in all those browsers to see how they looked and worked? Luckily nowadays we just have to check it in Navigator and Explorer. Versions 3 and 4. On the Mac and Windows... With the...

Anyway, I still need to load Cyberdog...

And I haven't seen NetPositive running in a while...

Hmmm, I wonder what it'll be like in five years when someone says, "Hey, I found an old copy of Netscape Navigator 4, and it still works! And the pages load so fast!!!"

uh-huh...

  Last Modified: 04.02.2001 by rasterboy