Before Netscape: the forgotten Web browsers of the early 1990s

[woodyear99]

Ok show of hands who here actually used one of these browsers back in the day :p


http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2011/10/before-netscape-forgotten-web-browsers-of-the-early-1990s.ars


When Tim Berners-Lee arrived at CERN, Geneva's celebrated European Particle Physics Laboratory in 1980, the enterprise had hired him to upgrade the control systems for several of the lab's particle accelerators. But almost immediately, the inventor of the modern webpage noticed a problem: thousands of people were floating in and out of the famous research institute, many of them temporary hires.

"The big challenge for contract programmers was to try to understand the systems, both human and computer, that ran this fantastic playground," Berners-Lee later wrote. "Much of the crucial information existed only in people's heads."

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[TriniXaeno]

I don't think I used any of those

The only thing before netscape in my mind was that opus bulletin board program.

I forget the name