Subj : Re: innovations back in the day
To   : August Abolins
From : Tony Langdon
Date : Tue Apr 09 2019 10:13 am

-=> On 04-08-19 19:54, August Abolins wrote to Tony Langdon <=-

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

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

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

Exactly.  Had shotgun had a few years jump on Mosaic, we might have had a lot
of BBS users already on GUI, by the time the web came around, and BBSs might
have made more inroads where web forums are today.


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