LibTechie
@westlakelibrary.org
| reply to floydb_1982
Re: Farewell Netscape...
IE won because it was free (and you couldn't get rid of it).
Early versions of IE sucked big time. The only reason they survived and eventually won the "Browser Wars" is that M$ gave the thing away with their OS while Netscape charged $49 per install. I was a believer and paid the money.
By the time Netscape gave in and started giving away their product it was too late; M$ had started driving nails into their coffin. How, as a company, do you compete against free?
For me the end came when AOL bought 'em up -- same with CompuServe -- both were finished off by AOL. |
|
SolarPup
IT Geek-Dawg
Premium
join:2002-03-07
The Pound
clubs: | reply to TexasPlus
Oh of course! And was part of a Legend of the Red Dragon group too  |
|
jadinolf
I love you Fred
Premium
join:2005-07-09
Ojai, CA | reply to normat
Farewell, Netscape.
You served us well. 
--
This post printed on 100% recycled bytes |
|
normat
Premium
join:2000-08-02
Boynton Beach, FL
clubs:
| reply to RR Conductor
Actually I did quite a bit of Prodigy and Compuserve starting in the late 80's. The online social community on Prodigy was quite strong at the time. In some ways the online community then was better than anything now since it was a bit more concentrated. Also, you didn't have all the morons (for a lack of a better word) that you find on places like myspace.
Got Mosaic from the University in the Early 90's. I remember one of the big geek debates of those days was to keep graphics off of web pages. |
|
TexasPlus
join:2004-06-16
Bedford, TX
 ·Millenicom
 ·ViaTalk
| reply to Enlightener
said by Enlightener  :Rookie. I remember my first browser was AMosaic for my Amiga. Of course while I love the web, I still look back fondly at my old BBS that I would run even while surfing the then new internet. Did you use NetMail over FidoNet with your BBS? 
--
"The world is a book; those who do not travel read but a single page." -St. Augustine |
|
RR Conductor
RailRoadDude
Premium
join:2002-04-02
Redwood Valley, CA
 ·Comcast
| reply to SLD
Until I got on the net in 1990/91, I'd never been "online", in the 80's there just wasn't much going on with the online world. I knew a couple of people who had modems, and our church (LDS) had computers linked to Salt Lake City, but using computers to communicate was still mostly the stuff of movies. |
|
SLD
Premium
join:2002-04-17
·Comcast
1 edit | reply to RR Conductor
Yeah, for me it was the BBS, then in early '90s, NCSA Mosaic. Netscape took over then IE when Windows 95 came out. Netscape took forever to load vs. IE. Remember how people waited overnight for the release of Windows 95? Not quite the latest Vista launch, was it? |
|
Piggie
I Actually use Windstream
Premium
join:2005-11-23
Orange Springs, FL
 ·HughesNet Satellit..
 ·Windstream
| reply to ReVeLaTeD
said by ReVeLaTeD :I remember working at a company back in 1996 when Netscape was at the forefront. IE just couldn't cut it as a browser for certain things and Netscape's built in utilities made it really easy to develop personal web pages. I remember Navigator Gold which quite honestly was the greatest browser...until they screwed it up and went to the Communicator suite. Farewell Netscape...you'll forever be a part of history as the browser that WAS the greatest of all time. Just like Ali. Yeap, back in 94, my first ISP account, you had to actually go downtown to sign up. They gave you a 3.25" floppy.
It had on it:
win sock
Netscape
FTP
Gopher
All on one 1.44M floppy, lol.
They told me if I didn't like the email in Netscape to download a new program they found from their FTP server called Eudora. I later switched to Pegasus mail and still running it. Ran Netscape till IE passed it up with IE5.5
But once Fx came out I went back with the Mozilla boys.
A page has turned. But the jump start it gave the web along with the Netscape search engine can't be minimized by what it laster became..
--
| Speedstream 4200 Modem - 3m/384 plan | W98-W2KSP4-XPSP2 - All AMD | Buffalo WHR G54S with Tomato 1.13 | 3 downstream switches feeding 6 total clients (no wireless) | Including the Data port on the side of my neck | |
|
Jeffrey
too dark too early
Premium
join:2002-12-24
Dix Hills,NY
clubs:
·Optimum Online
 ·Verizon FIOS
·Vonage
·magicjack.com
| reply to RR Conductor
said by RR Conductor :said by Jeffrey :I remember Netscape being my first browser back in the day. Switched to IE for a reason I can't recall, then to Opera for a bit, finally resting with Firefox. I remember Netscape being a darn good product, just didn't think people still used it. It was my second browser, my first browser was NCSA Mosaic circa the early 1990's. When I first got on the net in 1990, it was still a text based thing, and you used Archie, Veronica and Gopher to look things up, takes me back talking about those! Wow, you just gave me a flashback. I stand corrected, I used Mosaic and Gopher for a part of 1993. That is definitely something that I have forgotten.
--
And so castles made of sand, slip into the sea, eventually.
I'm the Dude. So that's what you call me. You know, that or, uh, His Dudeness, or uh, Duder, or El Duderino if you're not into the whole brevity thing. |
|
M A R K
Premium
join:2001-06-15
Long Island
clubs: | reply to anonnnn
said by anonnnn :
i think it was back in 1993. the netscape communicator's composer v4.73. my first web page. ahhh, the memories.
Thats all i used..
--
Neturei Karta |
|
RR Conductor
RailRoadDude
Premium
join:2002-04-02
Redwood Valley, CA
·Comcast
1 edit | reply to Jeffrey
said by Jeffrey :I remember Netscape being my first browser back in the day. Switched to IE for a reason I can't recall, then to Opera for a bit, finally resting with Firefox. I remember Netscape being a darn good product, just didn't think people still used it. It was my second browser, my first browser was NCSA Mosaic circa the early 1990's. When I first got on the net in 1990, it was still a text based thing, and you used Archie, Veronica and Gopher to look things up, takes me back talking about those! |
|
floydb_1982
join:2004-08-25
Kent, WA
·Clearwire Wireless
·Comcast
| reply to ReVeLaTeD
If Netscape was so good at the time as your saying it was then how is it that IE became number 1 over Netscape? Oh that's right Microsoft took peoples rights away to uninstall the IE browser. So if you wanted too use a competitor browser you would have to live with 2 web browsers on your computer or just stick with the IE browser. I don't think folks wanted to have 2 web browsers on there computers so more and more people were forced to stick with IE. If Microsoft would include an un-installer with its IE browser then people would have been able to get rid of it and pick a web browser of there choice. Being forced to have IE on your computer is most likely what did in the Netscape browser. Then again you need to use a web browser to download and install another web browser. |
|
anonnnn
@qwest.net | reply to ReVeLaTeD
i think it was back in 1993. the netscape communicator's composer v4.73. my first web page. ahhh, the memories. |
|
MyEye
The eyes have it
Premium
join:2004-06-07
Natick, MA | reply to Enlightener
Yup. Mosaic, Gopher Clients, Netscape, T-Shirts -
Kind of brings a tear to MyEye...  |
|
Enlightener
join:2006-01-28
Cedar Park, TX
·AT&T U-Verse
| reply to axus
Rookie. I remember my first browser was AMosaic for my Amiga. Of course while I love the web, I still look back fondly at my old BBS that I would run even while surfing the then new internet. |
|
Jeffrey
too dark too early
Premium
join:2002-12-24
Dix Hills,NY
clubs:
·Optimum Online
·Verizon FIOS
·Vonage
·magicjack.com
| reply to ReVeLaTeD
I remember Netscape being my first browser back in the day. Switched to IE for a reason I can't recall, then to Opera for a bit, finally resting with Firefox.
I remember Netscape being a darn good product, just didn't think people still used it. |
|
n2jtx
join:2001-01-13
Glen Head, NY
·Optimum Online
| reply to ReVeLaTeD
I gave up on Netscape when IE 4.0 came out and the Netscape Communicator Suite arrived. It took Micro$oft four attempts to get IE right but IE 4.0 was a worthy browser to switch to. Thankfully at least, Netscape spawned the open source Mozilla movement that has given us Firefox and Thunderbird.
--
I support the right to keep and arm bears. |
|
pb5k
more cowbell
Premium
join:2005-11-16
Glendale, AZ
·Cox HSI
| reply to ReVeLaTeD
Agreed.
And of course if you're feeling nostalgic about the good old days, you can always use firefox with a Netscape theme.
--
"When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not guilty.'" --
Theodore Roosevelt |
|
axus
join:2001-06-18
Washington, DC
·Verizon Online DSL
| reply to ReVeLaTeD
Yeah, Communicator sucked, Microsoft put out a really good product for free after that. Props to AOL for supporting Mozilla when it did, though. I'll always remember Netscape as my first Web Browser |
|
ReVeLaTeD
Premium
join:2001-11-10
San Diego, CA
| I remember working at a company back in 1996 when Netscape was at the forefront. IE just couldn't cut it as a browser for certain things and Netscape's built in utilities made it really easy to develop personal web pages. I remember Navigator Gold which quite honestly was the greatest browser...until they screwed it up and went to the Communicator suite.
Farewell Netscape...you'll forever be a part of history as the browser that WAS the greatest of all time. Just like Ali. |
|
