Subj : Re: Browsers
To   : Bogomips
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Fri May 02 2025 03:01 pm

 Re: Re: Browsers
 By: Bogomips to Boraxman on Fri May 02 2025 07:24 am

> I think i used a web browser and just entered Newgroup://alt.whatever? never
> used a third party program

Netscape Communicator would handle those URLs - it had a news client, chat client email and HTML composer all in one.

There's a modern-ish program called Mozilla Seamonkey that was designed to look/feel like Netscape Communicator, unfortunately it doesn't run on my BBS box.

It was a cool idea in the late '90s. I used to set up an office with a Linux box running internal IRC and NNTP servers, along with IMAP/SMTP, and people would use Communicator as groupware. Worked pretty well, and was all free.

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