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Welcome to Netscape (1994)
- stuaxo 11y agoWow, reminds me of visiting the first internet cafe in the UK.. it seemed weird getting served coffee and cake while using a computer, + using very early internet browsers and Gopher.
- barking 11y agoDo you remember, Cyberia! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberia,_London https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberia,_London
- gaius 11y agoMy flatmate's (at the time) girlfriend (at the time) worked there. But none of us were cybergoths, really ;-)
- 6502nerdface 11y agoInteresting, I wonder if the name was a bit of inspiration for Cyberdelia [1,2]. [1] http://letshang.tumblr.com/post/6801119158/cyberdelia-hackers-cyberdelia-was-built-from http://letshang.tumblr.com/post/6801119158/cyberdelia-hacker... [2] http://cyberdelianyc.tumblr.com/ http://cyberdelianyc.tumblr.com/
- eru 11y agoWasn't the first UK internet cafe in Cambridge? I think I've been.
- Pitarou 11y agoThat's CB1 you're thinking of, which I believe was the second to open. It's the oldest surviving in the UK.
- keithpeter 11y agoThere are still cybercafes in the UK. They are found now in poor areas, and they do phone calls as well as Internet access. Strange how stuff changes.
- mohaine 11y agoI miss the pulsing N.
- digi_owl 11y agohttps://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/throbber-restored/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/throbber-rest... If you can find the proper graphics files, the Firefox addon above should be able to reproduce it.
- skymt 11y agoI tracked down the graphics a while ago for exactly this purpose. http://imgur.com/a/R9b84 http://imgur.com/a/R9b84
- adventured 11y agoAlways really liked this one: http://i.imgur.com/0xn9DUF.gif http://i.imgur.com/0xn9DUF.gif
- bshimmin 11y agoI remember spending hours (and hours and hours) downloading the latest Netscape over a 14.4k modem in the mid-nineties, and somehow that awesome icon really did make it all seem worth it. What a time to be alive!
- angersock 11y agoAlmost all of the links on the "What's Cool" section are now, sadly, defunct. http://home.mcom.com/home/whats-cool.html http://home.mcom.com/home/whats-cool.html
- some-guy 11y agoGood news is a lot of the links are browsable on archive.org's Wayback Machine!
- tcdent 11y agoI found it interesting that both Lycos and WebCrawler linked to university domains and were in subdirectories. Those where my go-to when I was first online, but I remember them having concise domains by that time.
- zhte415 11y agoAnd they IPOd for what, a little over $100mn? An internet-connected connected, cat-enabled, SaaS, Bootstrap-themed, social, app that does something, anything, can realistically imagine those numbers. Certainly, from today's perspective (and at the time), these were internet heavyweights. I write this using Firefox, to whom Netscape was a direct ancestor. Visionary.
- gaius 11y ago$2.9Bn They were one of the last technology companies to produce, y'know, actual technology, a product, with a revenue model (originally the browser was a paid-for product for corporate use, free for personal use, then they pivoted to give away the browser to create a market for web servers - yes people used to pay for web servers+). Nowadays there's no actual technology being developed by the so-called "unicorns", just ways to trick you into viewing ads or side-step regulation. + I maintain to this day, having been in this business 20 years, that Netscape Enterprise Server 2.1 is the best web server ever written
- burnte 11y agoSee jwz's blog for details on how this actually still works. https://www.jwz.org/blog/2011/02/seeking-contact-inside-aol/ https://www.jwz.org/blog/2011/02/seeking-contact-inside-aol/
- M4v3R 11y agoI think the best part is the "what's new" section: http://home.mcom.com/home/whats-new.html http://home.mcom.com/home/whats-new.html I imagine that today every minute more new stuff appears on the Internet than in all of those what's new pages combined. Just shows how far we went from there.
- wodenokoto 11y agoMy favorite tidbit about this site is that Netscape was hard coded to randomly hit a subdomain of that site, in order to distribute load on the servers.
- eecks 11y agoThat's really interesting. Especially the search websites and the internet white pages considering what we have now. The "what's new" section was good too. Do we have anything similar now? Probably Reddit.. but it would be good to have a "what's new" about websites and their content rather than news articles/pictures.
- elros 11y agoThis is just gold: view-source:http://home.mcom.com/home/welcome.html http://home.mcom.com/home/welcome.html :-)
- SmellyGeekBoy 11y agoI thought something looked "off" but it may just be my memory lying to me - I'm pretty sure the default (or maybe just the trend) in the mid-90s was for gray backgrounds rather than white. I see from the source that this page is a straight copy with no background set so in modern browsers it defaults to white. Or perhaps it's just me? I would've been 10 at the time but we did have internet access at home (Dad needed it for work) so perhaps I'm mis-remembering.
- nissehulth 11y agoYou're right, it should be a gray background. I don't even remember when the browser default changed to white.
- jayvanguard 11y agoWasn't it Netscape 1.1? Everything looked so modern after that.
- niix 11y ago<3 this source code. I think I'll start building sites like this again. At least I know it'll work anywhere.