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From: The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: alt.comp.software.firefox,comp.misc
Subject: Re: 30 Years Of Netscape
Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2024 09:50:44 -0800
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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!


-- 
Cheers, Bev
   "Attention: All virgins report to Paradise immediately!!
    This is not a drill."                     --MWilliams