30 years ago the internet was a joke and it was not obvious to most it would be big. Feel free to suggest ideas in pockets of crypto, robotics, and biology. Even very obvious things we have in web tech are not in these areas.
They weren’t. The web was text based. If you wanted images you went to an alt.binaries.pictures newsgroup in your newsgroup app and uudecoded the attachments.
People fucking HATED Marc Andreesen for making the world wide web like magazines.
This was the first browser to add graphics and forms. It is hardly an exaggeration to say that this software launched the modern web.
Marc Andreesen created Mosaic. He went on to co-found Netscape which released Navigator at the end of 1994 and had the largest IPO in history. After that it was the “Cool Site of the Day” and the race was on…
For consumers, it was BBS's where you had to download them first or Compuserve-like services with their own apps and capabilities. IIRC GIF was born from one of the proprietary services. AOL introduced me to the wider Internet--and its graphics and markup--not long after '93. Then stand alone ISPs grew in popularity.
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People fucking HATED Marc Andreesen for making the world wide web like magazines.
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This was the first browser to add graphics and forms. It is hardly an exaggeration to say that this software launched the modern web.
Marc Andreesen created Mosaic. He went on to co-found Netscape which released Navigator at the end of 1994 and had the largest IPO in history. After that it was the “Cool Site of the Day” and the race was on…
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