Re: These computers still work?

[pausch@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter)]

In article <20030726141101.21731.00000912@mb-m07.aol.com>,
Supertimer <supertimer@aol.com> wrote:
 
> 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?
 
Sure!  Mosaic was the first browser I used to surf the web, in 1994.
Before that I had only mail and news, and used ftp mail servers to
access ftp sites: getting a file was then often a project which
took half a day or so.
 
> In those days, Internet Explorer was a joke.  It took
> underhanded tactics for it to overtake Netscape.
 
In those days, Internet Explorer didn't even exist!  And Netscape ver
1 was a great improvement over Mosaic.  Back then, Microsoft tried
for a while to ignore the Internet and instead hoped that their own
"Microsoft Network" would become a world-wide network everyone would
connect to.  But soon MS realized their mistake and rushed to develop
Internet Explorer ver 1....
 
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