Subj : Re: Browsers
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : Nightfox
Date : Sat Apr 19 2025 18:07:12

  Re: Re: Browsers
  By: poindexter FORTRAN to Nightfox on Sat Apr 19 2025 04:47 pm

 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 Masturbator"...
 Ni>> :P

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

That was MS Internet Explorer.

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

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

I remember Netscape Communicator.  I had it installed for a little while, though I didn't really use it much.  I tried its web designer, though I still preferred to hand-code my HTML pages at the time, since its web designer added a lot of bloat.  And the Communicator browser seemed basically the same as Netscape Navigator.

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

I haven't heard of Google Workspace..  I'll have to look into it.  And for the past several years, the main web browser I've been using is Vivaldi - It's a very customizable browser, and I like it.

Nightfox

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