[WEB4LIB] RE:The beginning of the end for the Netscape Browser???

[Tony Barry]

At 4:18 PM -0700 8/6/01, Raymond Wood wrote:
>with the Navigator browser, is derived from the the phrase 'Mozaic
>Killer' (does anyone remember Mozaic?  :)

Hell!  I even remember xmosaic which I installed on my unix box in 
early 1993. Later that year (November) Mosaic for Windows and MacOS 
were released and the whole web took off.

When Andreeson and his crew jumped from NCSA to found Netscape I 
worried that the days of a free browser might go. Now I'm going to be 
happy to pay for a lean fast browser that works in the form of iCab 
http://www.icab.de/ or Opera http://www.opera.com/ (once they are out 
of testing) rather than putting up with the huge and ponderous NS and 
IE, even if free.

As it is, my default browser for an initial look at a page, is text 
only. I only use these other browsers if they show evidence that 
there are images, or software in them which actually convey meaning. 
Mostly they don't.

Tony
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