Belated Birthdays

[andrewducker]

Yesterday was the tenth birthday of Mosaic, the first major browser, written by Marc Andressen (who went on to found Netscape).

I'd been using the internet for 2 years at that point in text only form, over telnet, email and usenet. The web took a while to take off, so long in fact that Windows 95 didn't have a web browser in it and Microsoft had plans for a project codenamed Magpie which they believed would be better than the internet or AOL.

Let's think about that context - 10 years ago, AOL and Microsoft were both considered bigger than the internet. That thought is now completely unthinkable.

Gosh

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[wolflady26.livejournal.com]

I remember not long after that time, my ex-boyfriend was explaining the options available with the ISP I was signing up with. He said it cost xxx for email only and xxx more for web access. And I said, What's the web? And he said something about people putting up different pages with information on them, and I said, Oh, I don't think I need anything more than the email.

Luckily for me, he convinced me to go ahead and get the web access ;)