Posted on 05/20/2017 4:51:13 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
One of the very first web browsers, if not the first, was something called Mosaic which was developed at an Illinois college
IIRC the developers of Mosaic morphed it into Netscape Navigator which had to be the first widespread web browser.
I owned a computer in the ‘80s and ran autocad and lotus 1-2-3. I had to install a math co predecessor for autocad. I think the CPU was an 80386.
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You probably remember VisiCalc and Wordstar. Lotus wiped out VisiCalc and Wordstar couldn’t compete with Microsoft Word.
I worked on OS/2 which was supposed to replace Windows. It was a joint development between IBM and MS. MS screwed over IBM and released Windows which killed OS/2 which was WAY better. Gates is a SOB. This was in the mid 90’s.
I have Safari as my browser but i also have Epic, Brave, Opera Firefox and Opera to fall back on for various uses. I like Epic. Haven’t used Brave much its there in case I need it. Oh..did I mention I also have Chrome if needed?
Try downloading a couple of different browsers and see what happens. Opera was always a nice browser.
One of my all time favorite programs. I used it to design the estimate forms and invoices for my business back in 1998, and have been using those same forms ever since (though I was forced to rebuild them in MS Word many years ago),
Oh, I know. I took in the spirit it was delivered, but my funny bone hasn't quite woke up yet. I had a long nap earlier, and its like starting the day all over.
No need to duck and run ;-)
Maybe you were in the shower at the time. Or you got stuned by a Bieber like device.
I lurked for a LONG time before I signed up.
My wife and I got our first pc in 1998. It ran on Win 98, with Netscape Navigator as the browser.
What a learning curve that was. By the time I'd mastered those tools, XP hit the shelves, and I bought two new computers with all the latest bells and whistles.
I soon tired of Internet Explorer during that timeframe, and moved to Firefox. Aside from the fact that Mozilla ousted their CEO for being politically incorrect some years back, I've been satisfied with the product.
Try Brave. A bit slow to load, but has built in a lot of good things you have to add to Firefox to maintain sanity and privacy. https://brave.com/
I’ve got 5 browsers on this machine. Including the Chrome spyware.
I bought my first computer in 1995. It had Win95 with IE loaded. I didn’t look it up but I’m gambling that I wasn’t the first customer and that somebody owned it circa 1993, which qualifies as “early 1990s”. Incidentally, somebody that I knew and trusted told me to forget that IE is even installed and go download Netscape for free, which was a much better web-browser. I’m very glad I took that advice. As for Microsoft, that company started in 1975 and I’d heard of it in the mid-80s.
I'm sure there's more than one angle to that story, but I believe you. Just looking at Bill Gates' pet causes reveals the mind of the man. He's a one worlder, big government lib.
Wordstar couldn't make the transition from CP/M to DOS. They did port it to DOS, as I recall, but it never caught on. But it was Wordperfect, not Word, that killed Wordstar. Wordperfect lost out to the Microsoft empire in the DOS/Windows transition, but it was very popular in the gap between Wordstar and Word when DOS ruled the world.
I still remember some of the Wordstar dot codes. That's wasted space in my brain.
C:\>
I remember those days, too. It was pure hieroglyphics to me at the time. Still is, though I fare pretty well with HTML.
I was such a newbie with computers in 1998, I’m not sure how we wound up using Netscape as our default browser.
Even still, I can recollect navigating within Internet Explorer back then. I still remember the cartoonist icons in the interface. Hard to believe that was almost twenty years ago.
I suggest wiping that sector of your brain with a cloth. Some smart lady told me that.
How about hugh?
I use Firefox, Chrome, and Brave as my browsers. Use a few extensions on ‘Fox and Chrome, none on Brave. Brave is certainly the quickest to load- I think Brave may be a product of the CEO fired by Mozilla.
Each browser has its own strengths and weak points. Firefox tends to be my default. I’m using Chrome right now because I’m working with a cheap little Chromebook. Works good for the price.
I think I have a 300 baud modem somewhere around here....
And “not guilty”.
Well, I guess there could be exceptions to that one.
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