Subj : Re: computers
To   : tenser
From : Spectre
Date : Fri Jul 19 2024 19:00:00

 te> (not publicly) owned by then (but I remember big routers at e.g.
 te> NASA AMES around that time).

All of ours came out of Universities of the time...

 te>  Netscape Navigator came out in 1994,

You guys call it NutScrape too?

 te> URLs debuted with the web in 1991.  We were definitely using them
 te> with NCSA Mosaic and Lynx by 1993 (I can remember that it took
 te> approximately all night to compile Mosaic on a Sun SPARCstation
 te> 2 with a, what, 20MHz sun4c processor and 8ish megs of RAM...).
 te> The CERN site was, of course, already accessible, and there were
 te> a lot of web sites floating around at that time. I remember being
 te> distinctly unimpressed by the web; the protocol (HTTP) was garbage,
 te> the markup language was a joke; the software was buggy and not very
 te> interactive.  It really felt like a step backwards.

Yeah the early sites were all static. Took a while to figure out you could
post results from a script, and the browser didn't care how you did it, so
long as it was decipherable.  Lots of .CGI scripting.

I think your utilisation is a bit earlier than mine.  Mine was also driven by
my tech of the time, up until 95, I was still pushing a IIgs, which was only
good for text, and the old BBS hardware which had at least gotten to 3/486
and was running the local fileserver, but still either ran in text also.  So
no early browser compiling, but you did have, Nutscrape, Exploiter and I
forget who else, all trying to set the browser/HTML standards of the time
too.

Spec


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