You mean there are people who don’t have Google as their homepage, or at least a one-click bookmark on their Personal Toolbar?
Once by mistake I typed http://www.altavisa.com — and I got a page that said, “Yep, we’re not Alta Vista, but as long as you’re here, maybe you wouldn’t mind taking a look at this…”
So I deliberately typed in http://www.goggle.com and came up with a site that put a picture of diving goggles on its home page, and set itself up as a portal of sorts. The “goggle” theme was a sly wink to the folks who happened in there because of a typing error, since everybody knew that goggle.com wouldn’t exist if not for Google’s popularity.
Same with Mozilla.
There is also a current flap about www.nissan.com
The guy, name of Nissan, has had his website for a long time–apparently, the only leg the big guys have to stand on is he has allowed some car sales companies to put links on his page. I haven’t even looked at the page–I get all my news from the papers.
First web browser, yes, but you skipped the part about CERN, “Where the Web was born”, ya big lacuna
Mentock: Explain to me how you’re going to surf the web in a modern sense without a browser, ya ditto-head.
With a SGML parser and a pager, you yutz.
(not that I think anybody ever did this, but you could - after all, you can set Emacs up to interpret HTML fairly easily.)
You think that’s bad? Check out what the folks at Googli have done:
Why?
Why you lousy… :mad: I’m tellin’.
MODS!!!
Thrash this sucker.
Peace,
mangeorge
Does lynx count?
puly: lynx is a browser. It doesn’t do images, but it’s a browser.
Some Guy: emacs is a development environment. It has its own programming language (elisp) and virtual machine, and you can write anything you want to run in emacs (the language isn’t circumscribed, in other words). So saying emacs is a browser makes as much sense as saying Linux is a browser.
With an SGML parser and a pager, you have a bad lynx clone. It’s still a browser.
What was at googli.com? I can’t access the domain.
Derleth, for some reason I thought Lynx predated Mosaic. As a hypertext browser it did, but independent of the web. Otherwise, it seems to have had web capabilities in the modern sense, though non-graphical, a month after the release of Mosaic.
But from what I can gather, Mosaic was not the first web browser, which is really the point I was trying to address. Apparently, the first web browser was a a program called, simply, WorldWideWeb on a NeXT computer, which was finished on Christmas 1991.
This link at Cern has a www history. My statement that agreed that mosaic was the first web browser is said to be in error. I guess it depends upon what you call a browser! Anyway, that should make things clear.
It says Berners-Lee developed the concept in 1989, and demonstrated a prototype at the end of 1990. HEP folks were using it in 1991, and then it was made generally available. He launched a plea for other developers to join in, and NCSA responded with mosaic in 1993.
Mentock: Interesting. Thanks for the correction.
Less than 12 years ago. Astounding, when you think about it. 
Peace,
mangeorge
I wonder if anyone remembers Gopher, the pre-WWW way to surf the Internet. Yup, there was “Gopherspace,” and although there weren’t personal Gopher pages, most schools, many government institutions and many research organizations and non-profits had Gopher sites. Instead of hypertext, Gopher sites were configured as a hierarchical list of documents … you “dug” through a site to reach a page. There
Gopherspace was practically abandoned by 1997, long surpassed by the more visually appealing World Wide Web. There’s still a few holdouts, though. I found one Gopher site at gopher://quux.org/ . Unfortunately, it’s empty.
I thought about setting up a Gopher server, in the same vein as the Web servers churning away on Commodore 64s and Atari STs.
Here’s a Gopher simulator of sorts for Web browsers that don’t support the protocol.
I used to have a Computers for Dummies-type book that gave information on Gopher, as well as Archie and Veronica, which were (I think) the equivalent of search engines. There was also a little blurb about the WWW in there, which the author claimed was the biggest waste of time ever (ok, he may have been right there) and of course predicted that it would never catch on.
Gopher! Hell yeah! University of Minnesota had one of the main pages, didn’t they? Cripes, I still remember when Yahoo! was a non-searchable collection of favorite internet destinations put together by a couple o’ college students. That was 1992. Two years later and the drab black-and-white unix shell with esoteric commands was replaced by colorful graphics, sound and point-and-click ease. Ah…nostalgia…