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.
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Oggi, cool per tutti! 😂
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@Ronflaix in the middle of the woods 🎶
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@ugone si si ho letto l'articolo, poi c'è chi non ha neanche la scelta, ad es in caso di pc aziendali o l'utente medio
Truecrypt è discontinuato poi credo che alla fine ci abbiano fatto dei controlli rigorosi, veracrypt è basato su truecrypt e sviluppato, non so se possa essere meno sicuro, ma poi per un utente medio magari non è importante
Quel che mi manca è la differenza nell'esperienza d'uso
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@kenobit dovete fare come le variant dei manga o come le magic in tiratura limitata. COSI SONO RAREH1;11!1!!1!1
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Current* conditions near Grand Marais, MN:
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concordo sul fatto che per molti è dovere&ipocrisia.
Pure per me lo era, ma poi ho forzato (facendomi odiare all'inizio) alcune abitudini/riti che portavano a riflettere sullo stare insieme. Esempio: le spese della cena si dividono tra tutti, un regalo ciascuno da tutti con limite di spesa. I piccoli hanno una deroga, 3 regali max. Si cucina tutti insieme. Ognuno porta "la lettera di Natale" più o meno scemaOra siamo tutti più felici della festa.
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and just look at the glorious browsies and feelies in the Serpent Isle box 😻
this is one of the last times Origin put serious creative effort into their game boxes.
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@kenobit fortuna che ho letto questo messaggio, stavo per perdermelo quest'anno!
Quello dell'anno scorso è stato apprezzato dalla prole (e da me, ovviamente)!
