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News Hackers resurrect NCSA Mosaic

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  1. CardJoe

    CardJoe Freelance Journalist

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    CardJoe, 9 Mar 2010
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  2. praxis22

    praxis22 Geek

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    I remember upgrading from Mosaic to Netscape as Netscape supported background images :)
     
    praxis22, 9 Mar 2010
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  3. liratheal

    liratheal Sharing is Caring

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    Oh god. The memories!
     
    liratheal, 9 Mar 2010
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  4. amacieli

    amacieli What's a Dremel?

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    Oh god. The nightmares!
     
    amacieli, 9 Mar 2010
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  5. paisa666

    paisa666 I WILL END YOU!!!

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    The first web browser I used was netscape navigator :)

    but i remember seeing this being used by teachers and "older" ppl.
     
    paisa666, 9 Mar 2010
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  6. Lethal Jelly

    Lethal Jelly What's a Dremel?

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    Still beats Internet Explorer
     
    Lethal Jelly, 9 Mar 2010
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  7. Dave Lister

    Dave Lister Minimodder

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    We always used to use netscape navigator, because of worries about security using internet explorer ! cant remember ever hearing about mosaic.
     
    Dave Lister, 9 Mar 2010
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  8. Flibblebot

    Flibblebot Smile with me

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    Mosaic?

    Bah! Real users used Lynx :p
     
    Flibblebot, 9 Mar 2010
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  9. OWNED66

    OWNED66 What's a Dremel?

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    i wonder what happened to netscape
     
    OWNED66, 9 Mar 2010
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  10. Bazz

    Bazz Multimodder

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    Netscape stock traded between 1995 and 2003, subsequently as a subsidiary of AOL. However, it became a holding company following AOL's purchase of Netscape in 1998. The Netscape brand is still extensively used by AOL. Some services currently offered under the Netscape brand, other than the web browser, include a discount Internet service provider and a popular social news website. In December 2007, AOL announced it would no longer be updating the Netscape browser.
     
    Bazz, 9 Mar 2010
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  11. nakchak

    nakchak What's a Dremel?

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    Its called firefox;)

    Basically netscape founded mozilla, open sourced rendering engine and few other bits and bobs, and firefox was born, with seamonkey being closest to what navigator used to be
     
    nakchak, 9 Mar 2010
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  12. TSR2

    TSR2 What's a Dremel?

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    I used IE2 running on a virtual machine. Unfortunately it refused to open Google so I gave up.
     
    TSR2, 9 Mar 2010
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  13. Furymouse

    Furymouse Like connect 4 in dagger terms

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    And somewhere Opera is complaining
     
    Furymouse, 9 Mar 2010
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  14. GravitySmacked

    GravitySmacked Mostly Harmless

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    Those were the days... the halcyon days of the internet and 5 minutes for a page to load... happy times.
     
    GravitySmacked, 9 Mar 2010
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  15. thehippoz

    thehippoz What's a Dremel?

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    more detailed explanation.. http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/ben/archives/009698.html
     
    thehippoz, 9 Mar 2010
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  16. theflatworm

    theflatworm Gordon Freeman's Crowbar

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    This would have been around the time that the internet was charged by the minute, right: Oh God. The phone bills!
     
    theflatworm, 9 Mar 2010
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  17. Guest-2867

    Guest-2867 Guest

    Pah, when I first started using the internet there wasn't a fancy browser, it was all BBS! Granted I was only pretty young but I still remember my first steps in networking, all good fun :)
     
    Guest-2867, 9 Mar 2010
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  18. chrisb2e9

    chrisb2e9 Dont do that...

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    Yeah bbs for me too. And I surfed the internet in a dos browser. Pure text. Was crap!
     
    chrisb2e9, 10 Mar 2010
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  19. thehippoz

    thehippoz What's a Dremel?

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    started back with a 300 baud modem.. yeah bbs's were it- internet it was the usegroups at first through compuserve and prodigy.. there was a lot of interesting people on at the time
     
    thehippoz, 10 Mar 2010
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  20. Pookeyhead

    Pookeyhead It's big, and it's clever.

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    I remember Mosaic well. The Amiga used a version of Mosaic :)

    My first PC browser was Netscape. I used to love the little icon when it was searching :)

    Good memories.
     
    Pookeyhead, 10 Mar 2010
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