# Jan. 25 1994 **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [December 11, 2004, 9:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jan-25-1994/279289 "2004-12-11T09:03:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Garfield226](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Garfield226](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Garfield226)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2004, 9:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jan-25-1994/279289/1 "2004-12-11T09:03:56Z")
I just recently noticed that when someone has an external link near the beginning of a thread, in the mouseover preview of that thread I’ll see “JAN. 25 1994” in tiny letters, twice. What gives? I’m using Firefox, I’ve run spybot and adaware. This is weird. [screenshot](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v605/Garf226/screenshot.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2004, 9:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jan-25-1994/279289/2 "2004-12-11T09:33:37Z")
It’s odd, all right. I’m using Firefox 0.9, and on the mouseover for that same thread you showed in the screenshot, I get two dark vertical bars instead of those dates. Going to see what other browsers show … ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2004, 9:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jan-25-1994/279289/3 "2004-12-11T09:53:21Z")
In Mozilla, I get the black bars as well. In IE6, I get a _full_ text mouseover box (Firefox and Mozilla abridge it) and no bars, nothing out of the ordinary. Most odd. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2004, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jan-25-1994/279289/4 "2004-12-11T12:21:00Z")
For what it’s worth, that’s the date that J Allard, having seen a copy of Mosaic, wrote a memo titled, “Windows: The Next Killer Application for the Internet”, in which he recommended integrating a browser and TCP/IP protocals into Chicago (then the code name for Windows 95). ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2004, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jan-25-1994/279289/5 "2004-12-12T04:33:22Z")
No peculiar dates or black bars here. [Screenshot](http://home.earthlink.net/~ahunter/Upload_Download/screenshot.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2004, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jan-25-1994/279289/6 "2004-12-12T07:26:34Z")
Your Shira browser must be similar to IE in some respects, **AHunter3**. It doesn’t abbreviate the mouseover text as Firefox and Mozilla does, and _they_ produce the black bars/dates. That might be part of the connection, here. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2004, 9:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jan-25-1994/279289/7 "2004-12-12T09:03:22Z")
I’m using the latest upgrade of Mozilla Firefox and get nothing out of the ordinairy in my alt-tag for that thread. [Screenshot](http://hometown.aol.com/deimosan/images/screenshot.jpg).