Subj : Re: Browsers
To : poindexter FORTRAN
From : Boraxman
Date : Sun Apr 20 2025 06:53 pm
Re: Re: Browsers
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Nightfox on 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 Navigat
> 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. :)
What client did people use to acess the NNTP server? Just a newsreader, or was
there a web frontend?
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