Re: These computers still work?

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"Jason Whorton" <jason at microxl.com> wrote:

>To the original poster, you may want to breeze through the FAQ.  The
>IIGS has TCP/IP and there is an e-mail program, web browser, FTP client
>and even an AOL Instant Messenger program.  Due to hardware limitations,
>these programs are not as robust as the current programs such as
>Internet Explorer and such, but are a great example of what can be done
>when someone cares enough to work on it.

You have to remember the time frame of these programs.
Mid '90s era.  Back then, many schools still connected
their students with UNIX shell accounts.  Pine, UNIX FTP,
and Lynx were the programs these IIGS offerings tried to
match and overall, they did a pretty good job.

On the PC side, in those days I remember the school
computers offered Netscape 3.0 and Mosaic.  Anyone
remember Mosaic, the original graphic web browser?
In those days, Internet Explorer was a joke.  It took
underhanded tactics for it to overtake Netscape.