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Remember when you had to physically drive to a store to get a Web Browser?
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In Italy we had also a local multimedia encyclopedi called Omnia. I got one every christmas from 1997 to 2001. I love encynclopedias so much.
And also educational games like Opera Fatal or Physikus.
I don't think I ever bought one. There was plenty of discs included with other programs I bought.
This has been one of my favorite boxes for YEEEEARS:
I identify with that smiling man with the steve harvey mustache so hard.
What site do you think he's on?
Yes! Lol, I wear most of the results were placebo. At least on my 14.4
I didn't get my first computer until 1999, so I never experienced this. We got AOL floppies and discs in the mail all of the time, and the friend that I had who had a computer typically used AOL for the Internet and browser. My family used MSN for our dialup, and from there just used the available web browsers. It was already built into Windows '98.
PAP CHAP PPP SLIP CSLIP, to this day I wonder if the people who made this actually knew what it all meant.
In a very Microsoft move, they licensed Internet Explorer 1 from Spyglass Inc. for a percentage of non-Windows revenue. So by bundling it with Windows for free, they didn't have to pay any royalties. This, of course, killed off the short-lived attempt by Netscape to make any money selling a browser to people as a product.
I remember those wild and crazy days, my first browser being NCSA Mosaic. I even remember some pre-web stuff like Gopher. Simpler times, if not necessarily better.
I remember those wild and crazy days, my first browser being NCSA Mosaic. I even remember some pre-web stuff like Gopher. Simpler times, if not necessarily better.
I'm neither good nor bad. Let's just say I'm no angle, M'lady.
Haha, no, I don't remember this because it was mostly never the case for most people. I was a fairly early "normal consumer" user of the internet, early 90s. But, the software came on disks that Prodigy sent you in the mail for us.
The browsing experience was pretty different those days anyway, I spent most of my time in Prodigy's 'walled garden,' which looked like this:
I spent most of my time on the BBS, videogames and wrestling in particular:
BUt then at some point realize there was a WWW Feature that brought you to the wider world-wide-web. This was a diversion from AOL whidh was strictly a walled garden.
There was a crazy sense of discovery in those days, especially for a 9-10 year old. Although, I probably shouldn't have been participating in any of it.
The browsing experience was pretty different those days anyway, I spent most of my time in Prodigy's 'walled garden,' which looked like this:
I spent most of my time on the BBS, videogames and wrestling in particular:
BUt then at some point realize there was a WWW Feature that brought you to the wider world-wide-web. This was a diversion from AOL whidh was strictly a walled garden.
There was a crazy sense of discovery in those days, especially for a 9-10 year old. Although, I probably shouldn't have been participating in any of it.
Does anyone remember the original "Microsoft Gaming Zone" ?
Where it was an app you'd download, and it was a renaissance village with various huts and houses where you'd play games like Hearts, Poker, Solitaire online with others?
I haven't been able to find a screenshot of it for years. This was before they moved it to the website-based "MSN Gaming Zone" and opened it up to other games:
This was around the same time as Kali95.
fun fact: Kali95 was my first ever internet purchase with my mom's credit card. lifetime sub for $20 or something like that.
Where it was an app you'd download, and it was a renaissance village with various huts and houses where you'd play games like Hearts, Poker, Solitaire online with others?
I haven't been able to find a screenshot of it for years. This was before they moved it to the website-based "MSN Gaming Zone" and opened it up to other games:
This was around the same time as Kali95.
fun fact: Kali95 was my first ever internet purchase with my mom's credit card. lifetime sub for $20 or something like that.
Nah, I got online in '96 when browsers were either mailed to you without you even asking for it or you could just go online and download it.
I remember the first time I used a browser, Mosaic. It was on a school computer (with multimedia capabilities!). World Wide Web wasn't really that impressive back then, it was kind of meh "style" over substance. All the cool stuff that was happening was in BBS's or accessed through shell account.
At home with a 2400 bps modem anything apart from ASCII/ANSI was basically a no go. I installed Netscape when I got a 14400 bps one but really, waiting for minutes at worst for a page to load that basically just has links to other pages you have to wait for minutes to load (unless you disabled images). It was only marginably usable apart for something really specific you needed.
At home with a 2400 bps modem anything apart from ASCII/ANSI was basically a no go. I installed Netscape when I got a 14400 bps one but really, waiting for minutes at worst for a page to load that basically just has links to other pages you have to wait for minutes to load (unless you disabled images). It was only marginably usable apart for something really specific you needed.
Drive to a store? Pfft. I just pulled it down from an FTP connection on my high school's ISDN connection.
But ya, I remember the days of going to Future Shop and browsing the aisles of boxed software. Fractal Design Painter (now Corel Painter) came in an actual goddamn metal paint can.
But ya, I remember the days of going to Future Shop and browsing the aisles of boxed software. Fractal Design Painter (now Corel Painter) came in an actual goddamn metal paint can.
I have been using computers for a relatively long time (early 90's), and I have never had to buy a browser in a store.
I remember those big Netscape boxes but in the mid '90s, I only had internet access on college computers.
I don't think I ever had to do that. We got the internet around '95 and AOL came installed with it's own flavor of Netscape, then later I.E. By the time I was able to get true non-AOL browser, it was easily downloadable.
You needed at least 3 PhDs to install your ethernet card and get online at school in the early nineties. Then you could download netscape off the internet and a year or so later internet explorer. That was pretty fucking mind-blowing at first when you could download a program from the internet and install it on your computer.
You youngsters don't know how good you have it with your plug and play.
You youngsters don't know how good you have it with your plug and play.
wiki says Microsoft didn't start to include IE with Windows 95 until 1996
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Removal_of_Internet_Explorer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_95#Internet_Explorer
that makes sense! we got our 95 computer at the very end of 95/beginning of 96.
I still own my first cassette game from when I was a kid. And it works in 2019.
I remember getting around a dozen America Online cd's a month. In the mail, shoved in magazines, and whatnot.
I think I just missed that era and instead got aol discs in the mail.
Years prior, as a kid, someone showed me "Netscape navigator" and this thing called the "world wide web" and I remember distinctly not knowing what the big deal was. Lol.
We are so spoiled today.
Years prior, as a kid, someone showed me "Netscape navigator" and this thing called the "world wide web" and I remember distinctly not knowing what the big deal was. Lol.
We are so spoiled today.
In SF....Our High School (which was a relaunch at an old school site) gave us computers to take home. There were only freshmen that year.. we were also the first sophomores, etc.
This was the mid 90's. The computers looked like they were from the late 80's or something. They were used, they stunk, and made loud noises. Green and black screens. The school didn't give us instruction manuals. I didn't understand how to connect it to the internet but kept at it. Then realized I had to pay. They had Netscape I believe.
I think the school just moved on and acted like they never gave us those. Everyone would just use the computers at school. NOW THOSE were advanced....we had a bunch of PCs with Netscape. All the kids did was look up "yo momma" jokes.... music lyrics....and slow loading low detailed pics of naked women.
But in that lab, there was also this one special Apple Computer...it was more advanced that those PCs... it had *gasp* a text to speech feature. Shit was a fucking trip!
This was the mid 90's. The computers looked like they were from the late 80's or something. They were used, they stunk, and made loud noises. Green and black screens. The school didn't give us instruction manuals. I didn't understand how to connect it to the internet but kept at it. Then realized I had to pay. They had Netscape I believe.
I think the school just moved on and acted like they never gave us those. Everyone would just use the computers at school. NOW THOSE were advanced....we had a bunch of PCs with Netscape. All the kids did was look up "yo momma" jokes.... music lyrics....and slow loading low detailed pics of naked women.
But in that lab, there was also this one special Apple Computer...it was more advanced that those PCs... it had *gasp* a text to speech feature. Shit was a fucking trip!
First Browser I used was Internet Explorer in 1997. Then Netscape Navigator, then Firefox, then Chrome.
God damn, I forgot about this, lmao.
Netscape Navigator, I loved using this. I know FF was basically born from this.
Netscape Navigator, I loved using this. I know FF was basically born from this.
All 3 and Yahoo was all I ever used.