Subj : innovations back in the day
To   : Tony Langdon
From : August Abolins
Date : Mon Apr 08 2019 07:54 pm

Hello Tony!

** 08.04.19 - 12:08, Tony Langdon wrote to August Abolins:

AA>> The problem was that everything else outside of Shotgun/RIP was
AA>> moving too fast forward.  Along came the "browser" for internet.

TL> It would have needed to have caught on before the WWW did. ;)


Mosaic, Netscape, ShotGun.. all emerged in the mid 90's.

Shotgun had a pretty good chance, but the target audience was just BBS  
users.

The browser solution with Mosaic, Netscape targetted people who wanted to  
explore the web.


Regards,
  ../|ug

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