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Subject: Re: 30 Years Of Netscape
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In alt.comp.software.firefox The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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!

Good old dialup! Got to compress, etc.
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