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I think you are looking at the past through incredibly rose-tinted glasses. The web has been a mess for a long time, and we used to have to make sure our comput
by untog 11y ago
I think you are looking at the past through incredibly rose-tinted glasses. The web has been a mess for a long time, and we used to have to make sure our computer was set to 800x600 and we were using Internet Explorer 6 in order to even use it.
- TillE 11y agoThat was 1997, not 2007.
- bradyd 11y agoIE 6 was released with Windows XP in 2001 and IE 7 didn't come out until the end of 2006.
- PavlovsCat 11y agoOpera was awesome even in 2000.
- djsumdog 11y ago2007 I was working for a shop that only officially supported IE6. It was a health insurance company too. Your premiums at work!
- coolsunglasses 11y ago>make sure our computer was set to 800x600 Thaaaaaaaat's nonsense. I had relatively high-res CRTs (1600x1200) in the late 90s and early 2000s. My father and I were able to get by with Netscape Navigator and Firefox for quite awhile as well.
- soperj 11y agoFirefox was released in November 2004.
- coolsunglasses 11y agoI know that. The date range was not exclusive. The point was that high resolution CRTs date quite a bit back even for consumer use. We had no problems browsing the web.
- dice 11y agoThe initial release of Phoenix was in 2002. Many long-time Netscape/Mozilla users (myself included) switched very early on.
- coolsunglasses 11y agoI remember even relatively computer un-savvy folk in '98 having 1024x768 monitors.
- lostgame 11y agoEven the first NeXT computer in 1990 was 1120×832...albeit greyscale...still...800x600 died in the mid-90s - especially for professionals.
- DanBC 11y agoHere's a message from 2003. (scroll up) https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/uk.comp.os.linux/5c40NHz1nbQ/lMaJ_aiZb9oJ https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/uk.comp.os.linux/5c40N... > http://www.argos.co.uk http://www.argos.co.uk > "Sorry, the Argos Internet site cannot currently be viewed using Netscape 6 or other browsers with the same rendering engine. > In the meantime, please use a different web browser or call 0870 600 2020 to order items from the Argos catalogue." > Sorry, I think I'll shop elsewhere until you get it fixed... Argos was sniffing the useragent. I think people tried changing the useragent, and it worked fine. This kind of thing wasn't rare, even in 2003.
- MustardTiger 11y ago>This kind of thing wasn't rare, even in 2003. And it is not rare now either. Nothing has changed in that regard. Things have just gotten massively slower, use insane amounts of CPU, and are less functional.
- ArkyBeagle 11y agoI'm pretty sure I had > 1024x768 graphics and have used nothing but Netscape/Seamonkey (because inertia) since the mid '90s.
- bluedino 11y agoSadly, a lot of laptops come with only 1366x768 displays, 20 years later. What a lack of progress.
- ArkyBeagle 11y agoLaptops sit in a different corner ( as in corner solutions ).