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Death of an icon

Mick-e said:
What was your first web browser?

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/12/28/financial/f133102S87.DTL&type=tech

I was all about Netscape in 1995, then somewhere I switched to Opera, and a couple of years ago Firefox.

My how things have changed.
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Christ...

I remember working with this new thing called "mosaic" at UIUC. Thinking how gopher was so much better (well, it kind of still is).

Best part is that I got to argue people involved, from the get go, about how stupid "anchor tags" sounded..

:laughing
 
I don't to recall those days, I used Compuserve back then and had to dial long distance to connect. That first phone bill, oh my...
 
Valgar said:
Christ...

I remember working with this new thing called "mosaic" at UIUC. Thinking how gopher was so much better (well, it kind of still is).

Best part is that I got to argue people involved, from the get go, about how stupid "anchor tags" sounded..

:laughing
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After using Archie servers and UUNET to surf the net, I was blown away by Mosaic. :wow

Netscape blew that away, but I'm amazed that browsers haven't really changed much since.

Before all that, BBS ruled the world. All you needed was a 300 baud modem. :nerd
 
Slowest I ever used was 1200 baud. Tried to send a Pagemaker file to a newspaper publisher, finally gave up and drove over there with the file on floppies.
 
Before all that, BBS ruled the world. All you needed was a 300 baud modem.
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If any of you were Atari 8 bit guys.. I was Modem Hell BBS.

300, 1200, 2400 baud...

GAWD! That was a long time ago.
 
serazin said:
If any of you were Atari 8 bit guys.. I was Modem Hell BBS.

300, 1200, 2400 baud...

GAWD! That was a long time ago.
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How many lines did you have?

I loved the good ole days when you setup a round robin dialer trying to get on your favorite boards. :thumbup
 
Sane_Man said:
How many lines did you have?

I loved the good ole days when you setup a round robin dialer trying to get on your favorite boards. :thumbup
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At one time, 3. But mostly only 1. Still mananged a few hundred calls a day.
 
I'm ashamed to admit my first browser was AOL 2.5. And I also had a 1200 baud modem. :cry
 
first I used was mosiac, but only a few weeks before Nutscrape Negotiator came available.

First modem was a 300 baud. Sure, I like bandwidth and all, but I remember thinkign that the slow but deliberate pace that it spat out plaintext was rather soothing. And I figured at the time that "hey, its just a touch quicker than I can read, so why do I need anything faster"?

Remember when it seemed like most things on the 'net (a term I'll use loosely here) seemed worth reading? :laughing

Also, who misses line noise?














Because I sure don't.:|

/s
 
And I figured at the time that "hey, its just a touch quicker than I can read, so why do I need anything faster"?
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Hmm I could easily read 300 baud and could keep up with 1200 for most of the time. But I gave up at 2400. :laughing
 
my first computer and online experience was AOL 2.5 in '95 on a Compaq 133mhz computer w/ 16mb ram, and a 8gig HD.

games were on floppies. 800x600 resolution was HUGE.
 
What the fawk are you guys talking about....I was born the same year IE came out :twofinger
 
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