eweek.com — " Fifteen years ago, the Web browser was invented on Christmas day. We look at its history, talk to Tim Berners-Lee and ponder the ways the software provokes users to define their own ways of consuming information online. "
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Closed AccountDec 25, 2005
Wasn't it just demo'ed on Christmas day? Or did he actually hack the whole thing out, or at least a prototype, on Christmas?
aoeu2Dec 25, 2005
X-MAS DAY!?!?! It's Christmas Day you atheist agnostic son of the devil.
etx313Dec 26, 2005
"And it was written on a NeXT computer!So Apple invented the Web Browser? :)Ok, sorry that was stupid...."Real stupid. Cause Microsoft owns anything I develop on windows right? Apple doesn't invent much of anything, they just mash two things together and give it a short, stupid name.
Closed AccountDec 26, 2005
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Closed AccountDec 26, 2005
you can still get it here<a class="user" href="http://browsers.evolt.org/?worldwideweb/NeXT">http://browsers.evolt.org/?worldwideweb/NeXT</a>but i really preferred the worlds #2 browser.. mosaic the great great grampy of firefox.<a class="user" href="http://browsers.evolt.org/?mosaic-ncsa/windows">http://browsers.evolt.org/?mosaic-ncsa/windows</a>opening digg.com in mosaic.. just has a blank page with an ok in the corner. ATleast on google the logo shows up even if the search box doesntmosaic 1 was unix only i believe.. so if you wanna try the original first windows version.. go for 2.0aTHey later recompiled 1.0 for windows.
worbdDec 26, 2005
So people should hate Mozilla then?Firefox isn't exactly superior compared to Opera or Safari. Both Opera and Safari are faster and far less memory hungry than Firefox. And more stable.