Subj : Re: Browsers
To : Nightfox
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Sat Apr 19 2025 04:47 pm
-=> Nightfox wrote to Mortar <=-
Ni> Re: Browsers
Ni> By: Mortar to Nightfox on Fri Apr 18 2025 10:42 am
Mo> The formal name was Netscape Navigator. They later dropped the Navigator
Mo> part.
Ni> I remember. And sometimes I referred to it as "Nutscrape
Ni> Masturbator"... :P
About the same time that people called it "Internet exploder"
Netscape came in two flavors - Navigator and Communicator. Communicator
included a mail client, NNTP client, IRC client and a couple of other
tools - HTML editor and calendar, if memory serves.
I built an entire corporate infrastructure on it - sent out distribution
lists via text updates, created an NNTP server for company
collaboration, like a Yammer/Viva Engage setup, and used IRC for a
company chat platform. All tied into Palm Pilots with a program called
PocketMirror that synched everything to your Palm. It was pretty cool,
and all totally cheap for a pre-funding startup.
Nowadays, you'd just get google workspace and call it a day. But that's
nowhere near as fun. :)
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