Subj : Re: Browsers
To   : Nightfox
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Sat Apr 19 2025 16:47:03

-=> Nightfox wrote to Mortar <=-

 Ni>   Re: Browsers
 Ni>   By: Mortar to Nightfox on Fri Apr 18 2025 10:42 am

 Mo> The formal name was Netscape Navigator.  They later dropped the Navigator
 Mo> part.

 Ni> I remember.  And sometimes I referred to it as "Nutscrape
 Ni> Masturbator"... :P

About the same time that people called it "Internet exploder"

Netscape came in two flavors - Navigator and Communicator. Communicator
included a mail client, NNTP client, IRC client and a couple of other
tools - HTML editor and calendar, if memory serves.

I built an entire corporate infrastructure on it - sent out distribution
lists via text updates, created an NNTP server for company
collaboration, like a Yammer/Viva Engage setup, and used IRC for a
company chat platform. All tied into Palm Pilots with a program called
PocketMirror that synched everything to your Palm. It was pretty cool,
and all totally cheap for a pre-funding startup.

Nowadays, you'd just get google workspace and call it a day. But that's
nowhere near as fun.   :)


 
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