Subj : Re: Browsers
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : Boraxman
Date : Sun Apr 20 2025 18:53:23

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

 > -=> 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 Navigat
 >  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.   :)

What client did people use to acess the NNTP server?  Just a newsreader, or was
there a web frontend?

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