JumbleDuck AWOL?

[Bilgediver]

I am still using a netscape.net email address from that same period. Remember Netscape Navigator?

Blimey. Similar to my netcomuk.co.uk

 

[AntarcticPilot]

I am still using a netscape.net email address from that same period. Remember Netscape Navigator?

I even remember Mosaic!

 

[Quandary]

Typical, you guys set out on a search for a lost friend, gone God knows where? and before you have gone a mile you are off on a tangent looking for old computer programmes without a thought for the poor guy in the snowdrift.

 

[dgadee]

Blimey. Similar to my netcomuk.co.uk

Just looked. Only set it up in 2003. Must have been using work address before then. First email must have been sent around 1982.

JumbleDuck too young to contribute to this discussion now, anyway. He still hasn't retired.

 

[mjcoon]

I even remember Mosaic!

IIRC Microsoft, though giving the impression that they were innovators and authors, had a browser, Internet Explorer, whose "About" blurb said it was based on Mosaic...

 

[dutyhog]

I think somewhere on a floppy disk I’ve still got Mosaic - and it worked on my old Mac. Back in mid-1994 when it was released for Mac I made html(1) web pages with the basic Mac text editor and publicised my work to the few people who could find it. Despite that I didn’t imagine that eventually advertising would drive the web.

Netscape replaced Mosaic for me in October 1994. It was written by ex-Mosaic people, and I think it always complied with html standards.

 

[AntarcticPilot]

IIRC Microsoft, though giving the impression that they were innovators and authors, had a browser, Internet Explorer, whose "About" blurb said it was based on Mosaic...

In the early days, pretty much all the mainstream browsers had some connection with Mosaic. I just checked, and you're right, Microsoft licensed Mosaic from the NCSA. But then they did their own thing of "extending" standards that resulted in the mess the IE ended up as. IE must have been the least standards compliant of browsers - but we had to support it because everyone had it!

 

[newtothis]

I even remember Mosaic!

I remember writing about the release of Mosaic as a youngish reporter in 1993. Prior to that I had been using Gopher. And that was called up on a 286 clone dialled in at 2,800 bps into a Vax box running VMS.
The internet really was in black and white (or black and green) back then.

 

[Greenheart]

I'm clicking out of notifications for this chat. No offence intended...especially if JD subsequently turns up.

 

[dom]

I'm clicking out of notifications for this chat. No offence intended...especially if JD subsequently turns up.

Suspect the the BBC's "Just a Minute" talent scouts won't stick around long either!

 

[dgadee]

Suspect the the BBC's "Just a Minute" talent scouts won't stick around long either!

If you weren't there then you don't see the romance in decrepit technology.

 

[Bodach na mara]

This thread has become a load of COBOLers