> I would like to think that after 20 years of effort, Netscape actually does more than 7.5 times as much stuff as it did in 1996. Does it though? In 1996 it

> I would like to think that after 20 years of effort, Netscape actually does more than 7.5 times as much stuff as it did in 1996. Does it though? In 1996 it included a mail client, a news client and a gopher client along with its HTTP & FTP clients. It even had JavaScript back then (I'm just going to take a moment to lament that JavaScript could have been Scheme — I don't even like Scheme as a language for programs, but as a language for web pages and web apps it would have been plenty good enough, even excellent!). It displayed images; it displayed HTML. Honestly, 1996 was a pretty good year for browsers.