Netscape Navigator 2.0 was released 30 years ago today
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Netscape Navigator 2.0 was released 30 years ago today.
This version introduced a number of new features:
• Plugins! This was the first time a web page could make sound, via RealAudio.
• Incremental display of progressive JPEGs on slow dialup connections.
• Animated GIFs that were actually useful.
• HTML frames.
• JavaScript! That wasn't my fault, but you still have my apologies.
• And of course my baby, the first release of Netscape Mail and News: -
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Netscape Navigator 2.0 was released 30 years ago today.
This version introduced a number of new features:
• Plugins! This was the first time a web page could make sound, via RealAudio.
• Incremental display of progressive JPEGs on slow dialup connections.
• Animated GIFs that were actually useful.
• HTML frames.
• JavaScript! That wasn't my fault, but you still have my apologies.
• And of course my baby, the first release of Netscape Mail and News:@jwz If you could send yourself back in time, knowing how the web and marca turned out, would you sabotage it?
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@jwz If you could send yourself back in time, knowing how the web and marca turned out, would you sabotage it?
@dhess Sort-of covered in Previously: https://jwz.org/b/ykbD
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Netscape Navigator 2.0 was released 30 years ago today.
This version introduced a number of new features:
• Plugins! This was the first time a web page could make sound, via RealAudio.
• Incremental display of progressive JPEGs on slow dialup connections.
• Animated GIFs that were actually useful.
• HTML frames.
• JavaScript! That wasn't my fault, but you still have my apologies.
• And of course my baby, the first release of Netscape Mail and News:@jwz did you have to code the support for audio files and stuff yourself or was there a already a library infrastructure for doing this around back then? I imagine it was a nightmare to get anything above the most basic stuff going, because all these libs and stuff didn’t exist, back then or was way more simple.
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@jwz did you have to code the support for audio files and stuff yourself or was there a already a library infrastructure for doing this around back then? I imagine it was a nightmare to get anything above the most basic stuff going, because all these libs and stuff didn’t exist, back then or was way more simple.
@Nfoonf The plugin architecture was basically: "Here's a rectangle for you to draw in with no memory safety, go hog wild". There was no infrastructure for any of this. Plugins were OS-specific, so it's a credit to RealAudio that they took our lead and did the work on Linux instead of being Windows- and Mac-only.
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Netscape Navigator 2.0 was released 30 years ago today.
This version introduced a number of new features:
• Plugins! This was the first time a web page could make sound, via RealAudio.
• Incremental display of progressive JPEGs on slow dialup connections.
• Animated GIFs that were actually useful.
• HTML frames.
• JavaScript! That wasn't my fault, but you still have my apologies.
• And of course my baby, the first release of Netscape Mail and News:@jwz ☝️ To celebrate the 30th anniversary of Netscape Navigator 2.0 here is my copy I bought around 1995 when it was still a paid product. I ran the browser under Windows 95.
Shortly after snapping this photo in 2017 I tossed the product in the trash, which I regret. I took the photo as I got a sense the artifact had some historical significance, but I wasn't into retrocomputing yet and didn't realize the importance of preserving such material.
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@jwz ☝️ To celebrate the 30th anniversary of Netscape Navigator 2.0 here is my copy I bought around 1995 when it was still a paid product. I ran the browser under Windows 95.
Shortly after snapping this photo in 2017 I tossed the product in the trash, which I regret. I took the photo as I got a sense the artifact had some historical significance, but I wasn't into retrocomputing yet and didn't realize the importance of preserving such material.
I bought a copy at the time as well, but I no longer have the box.
I also bought a copy of Applixware.
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@144mb Do you still have Netscape's disks or something else of the product?
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@144mb Do you still have Netscape's disks or something else of the product?
About all I can share that shows some authenticity of my post is I do happen to have a digital picture I took that shows my homebrew computer with my Applixware book binding also shown. This was the correct time period. Thinking back, I don't remember having diskettes or a package. I think I just downloaded it and paid for a license. I used to have the paper. My memory is it was $49 US for the Netscape license. In a few years that was all over.
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About all I can share that shows some authenticity of my post is I do happen to have a digital picture I took that shows my homebrew computer with my Applixware book binding also shown. This was the correct time period. Thinking back, I don't remember having diskettes or a package. I think I just downloaded it and paid for a license. I used to have the paper. My memory is it was $49 US for the Netscape license. In a few years that was all over.
@144mb Cool. Yes, that was the price range I remember.
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@jwz ☝️ To celebrate the 30th anniversary of Netscape Navigator 2.0 here is my copy I bought around 1995 when it was still a paid product. I ran the browser under Windows 95.
Shortly after snapping this photo in 2017 I tossed the product in the trash, which I regret. I took the photo as I got a sense the artifact had some historical significance, but I wasn't into retrocomputing yet and didn't realize the importance of preserving such material.
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@lhauser It was affordable even for a student or hobbyist.
Gli ultimi otto messaggi ricevuti dalla Federazione
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@francina1909 brividi. In queste due settimane ho fatto cose che non avrei mai pensato di fare in vita mia. E ho visto la paura e lo smarrimento negli occhi di mia madre. Poi mi sono guardato allo specchio e ho visto qualcosa di simile.
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@Pare Ah, in quel senso. Ma allora non vale nemmeno il 2025
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@zipidog tesoro quanto ti capisco. Non è facile diventare i genitori dei propri genitori.
In più leggendo il tuo post mi sono venuti i brividi a ripensare quando successe anni fa con mamma, con un mezzo chicco d'uva.
Menomale c'era il vicino di casa volontario della Misericordia che le fece la manovra. Se avessimo dovuto aspettare l'ambulanza sarebbe soffocata.
Il terrore provato fu terribile, e mamma era già completamente non autosufficiente e con la mente oramai spenta.
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@bbacc OK che questa persona mette sé stessa davanti a tutto in ogni contesto in cui "soffre" di qualcosa. Se le cose per cui soffre fanno soffrire anche te, almeno, ci sarebbe una qualche affinità. Se invece soffre per tutt'altro allora è pure stronza.
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Ciao @muffa stai vicino a Bandecchi 🫣
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@marcoboh @Bastacosi @ten700
Anch'io 😳
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Secondo il Telegraph, Zelensky a New York ha chiesto esplicitamente a Trump i missili Tomahawk
Che possono colpire a 2400 in 60 regioni dalla Russia europea agli Urali alla Siberia
Trump non ha detto di no.
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