Old browsers. Real old browsers
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I don't remember which browser was my first. What was current in 1993, running on DOS? Not that there was any real Internet here back then. We had to dial into a BBS with a DOS-based terminal emulator - I used ProComm - then connect to the host's portal to his private, dedicated Internet connection. Frankly, the Internet wasn't much use, since there were no search engines, and if you didn't know a URL for a site you wanted to view, you were screwed. Nice guy, Ripper - he charged $20 a month for the works, but it was on the honor system; there was a drop box at the local computer shop, and you stuck 20 bucks in the box when you remembered to stop by. Of course, that was a big improvement over my banking online experience in 1985, using a 300 baud modem on an Epson QX-10[^] running TP/M+. The Epson had 4 switchable banks of 64k RAM, and hosted Valdocs, a combination spreadsheet, word processor, database, and communications tool. It took about 30 minutes to check my account balance and make a transfer between accounts, but it was a vast time savings, since the nearest Bank of America was 10 miles away, down the mountain, and we were frequently snowed in. :-D
Will Rogers never met me.
Bank of America did not exist then. :D
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Chris Maunder wrote:
Any blasts from the past?
My oldest memories of using GUI browsers is browsing with images turned off (because of my 14.4 Kbps connection, later upgraded to 33.6 Kbps)! Not good memories those. X|
Regards, Nish
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Nishant Sivakumar wrote:
My oldest memories of using GUI browsers is browsing with images turned off (because of my 14.4 Kbps connection, later upgraded to 33.6 Kbps)!
That was me back in 2000 :< Our countries internet upgraded slowly... And then once again last year (2010), when our mobile internet cost $1 for 2MB (2 Megabytes of Data, not a 2MB Line...)
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Are you still supporting it? Rummages around... finds Abacus 0.7beta... gets the paper tape reader going again... ratcheta-ratcheta-(lots of ratcheta's)...
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Just to ensure those who feel old today feel really old, I was just wondering who here remembers the Netscape browser when it first came out, most notably the bit where, when you resized the browser, the entire page was reloaded from scratch. I'm just wondering if there are any other nuggets of pain from those early browsers I've forgotten. Any blasts from the past?
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
I remember when: * Netscape reloaded the page when you asked to view the source code. * When hovering over a link to a password protected ftp site (I was a 0day ftp sites fan!) showed the actual password! * There was a Netscape web server. * IE entered the scene and it looked lame. * I discovered Opera and NEVER ever came back to Netscape :laugh:
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Bunch of kids. :p I started with Mosaic. :)
So I rounded up my camel Just to ask him for a smoke He handed me a Lucky, I said "Hey, you missed the joke." My Mu[sic] My Films My Windows Programs, etc.
I started with Q-link, 300 BAUD modem and a C64
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Bunch of kids. :p I started with Mosaic. :)
So I rounded up my camel Just to ask him for a smoke He handed me a Lucky, I said "Hey, you missed the joke." My Mu[sic] My Films My Windows Programs, etc.
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Just to ensure those who feel old today feel really old, I was just wondering who here remembers the Netscape browser when it first came out, most notably the bit where, when you resized the browser, the entire page was reloaded from scratch. I'm just wondering if there are any other nuggets of pain from those early browsers I've forgotten. Any blasts from the past?
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
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Just to ensure those who feel old today feel really old, I was just wondering who here remembers the Netscape browser when it first came out, most notably the bit where, when you resized the browser, the entire page was reloaded from scratch. I'm just wondering if there are any other nuggets of pain from those early browsers I've forgotten. Any blasts from the past?
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
Yeah, it squeezed the juice out of my US Robotics 14400 modem... The pages were ugly and often failed to download the images. Not sure if the cuplprit was the connection or the combination of netscape + connection. By the way, only used internet after midnight because it would use my home's phone line and that was the only time they didn't charge gazillions for a minute over the phone.
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Just to ensure those who feel old today feel really old, I was just wondering who here remembers the Netscape browser when it first came out, most notably the bit where, when you resized the browser, the entire page was reloaded from scratch. I'm just wondering if there are any other nuggets of pain from those early browsers I've forgotten. Any blasts from the past?
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
well i remember redoing a website for a conference and i used tables to display the papers/presentations per day Got loads of complaints about people seeing "gibberish" on their browser. The ability to view tables in a browser hadnt been around long and most hadnt updated their netscape :) Bryce
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Just to ensure those who feel old today feel really old, I was just wondering who here remembers the Netscape browser when it first came out, most notably the bit where, when you resized the browser, the entire page was reloaded from scratch. I'm just wondering if there are any other nuggets of pain from those early browsers I've forgotten. Any blasts from the past?
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP