(Blatantly ripped from tweakers.net)
The World Wide Web is already almost twenty years old! In what year and with what web browser (and OS) did you first browse the web?
Me:
1993, Mosaic v1 on SunOS and Mac OS system 6 (in monochrome!).
(Blatantly ripped from tweakers.net)
The World Wide Web is already almost twenty years old! In what year and with what web browser (and OS) did you first browse the web?
Me:
1993, Mosaic v1 on SunOS and Mac OS system 6 (in monochrome!).
Lynx.
Just be gentle when you tatoo I’M OLD on my forehead, okay, please?
I would have been about '93 as well. The college computer lab computers used Mosaic but the crappy computer I was borrowing for my dorm room wouldn’t run it. So I dialed into the telnet shell and used Lynx.
Mosaic. Around 1995, I think? Or 94.
Also Mosaic, in 1994. I remember being in the computer lab and people peering over my shoulder asking me what in the world I was doing.
Me too, on a Mac 512Ke ( or a Mac Plus, it’s been a few years and I’ve slept since then.)
Netscape Navigator in 1995. On some kind of Mac in my middle school’s computer lab. 4th or 5th grade.
GEnie’s built in web browser (probably a form of Lynx). This had to be around 1992 or so.
I was online since 1989, but didn’t really get Internet access until around 1998. I was a big user of GEnie.
Lynx here, too. Ran Novaterm 9.something on my Commodore 128 to dial into the local university’s Unix system running C Shell (or, later on, one of the first local ISP’s Sparcstations running Solaris) to access the Internet; lots of telneting to BBSes, using Gopher to dig for articles, finding porn via Archie. Friends with Windows began crowing about Mosaic, and eventually turned me onto Lynx so I could access the WWW. ~1993. I didn’t move onto a graphics-based browser for several years, until the continued use of image maps by high-profile sites made regular use difficult.
What ever ran inside Prodigy (so I suppose the answer would be Prodigy), after that it was Netscape and then IE when Windows 95 came out.
We were running Win 3.1 on a 486SX
The built in AOL browser.
God I hated that piece of shit software.
Prodigy. I could turn it on and start to get online, take a shower, make breakfast, and go back to the computer just in time for it to be ready to crash.
Mosaic, I think in 1994.
Netscape, late eighties or early nineties. May have been talked through a connection through something called Veronica(?). But I don’t think that was a browser.
NCSA Mosaic, in 92 or 93. Before that, it was dial-up BBSes with text interfaces, downloading images to view later, and trading FTP site addresses.
Netscape Navigator on a PC running Windows 3.1. This was in 1995.
My first browser was probably an early version of Netscape (the one with the Throbbing N). This would have been early 1995, after I got a true Internet connection through dialup from a 386 PC running Windows 3.1. (Before that, I was using an XT and BBS software to connect to the Canada Remote Systems BBS, which gatewayed email to the internet, but I did not have actual full internet access myself.
Incidentally, VERONICA was the Very Easy Rodent-Oriented Net-wide Index to Computerized Archives. An indexing system for net resources using the gopher protocol. One of my favourite acronyms.
My first exposure was Mosaic, I was attending the University of Illinois in 1994 after all, but I wasn’t very interested in using it myself. At 18 years of age drinking and partying were much more important than adopting the cutting edge technologies. The first browser I used with any regularity was Netscape Navigator a couple years later when the internet got a little more useful for casual browsing and classes.
Man, I had to think for a second.
I’m gonna chime in with Netscape as well.
I was on Prodigy in the early 90s, but I’m not sure if I ever went outiside of prodigy.
For some reason I don’t fully remember, we only had prodigy in black and white. On our color monitor.
Never did get to complete MadMaze. :mad:
Another Netscapee