Re: 30 Years Of Netscape

On 11/6/24 6:08 PM, Ant wrote:

In alt.comp.software.firefox Rich <rich@example.invalid> wrote:

In comp.misc The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> wrote:

Heh.  I am one of those old people and I started using Netscape .9 for linux.  I even used Mosaic a few times!

 

I used Mosaic quite a lot in the very early days.  Of course it was being used on an X terminal (yes, real X terminal) connected to a Sun Sparc Station 20 in another building at work. 

Maybe 1993.  Some people wanted to develop a website for the company I worked for, and I was asked to evaluate their presentation.  They brought their apple computer into the conference room and ran a demo. Lovely.  I asked for a separate phone line and installed Mosaic so I could test it out in real time on real equipment.  Abysmal failure. Took forever to load and the graphics were sadly lacking on ordinary monitors.  Life used to be SOOOO much easier!

I remember using it in my college's computer science's lab. It was
running UNIX, but I don't remember which OS specifically. I doubt it was
Solaris. Linux, most likely!
 

IIRC it was Mosaic that I used to pull up photos of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9's impact with Jupiter in 1994 on that same X terminal a mere few hours after the impact occurred.

 For me, it was ants. Ha!

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