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When I first started making web pages. My first <HTML> (back then we caps our tags because we were gangsta). I had just installed Netscape Navigator and was wri

When I first started making web pages. My first <HTML> (back then we caps our tags because we were gangsta). I had just installed Netscape Navigator and was writing my pages (I don’t think we called it a site back then, the whole lot was a website), I wanted to share some punk rock music I was into as my website was a giant list of links to other bands etc etc. Me, being on Mac OS 7, just went with what I had been using, sit.hqx. I had no idea this wasn’t “standard”, no idea other folks couldn’t stuffit-expander their way to easy file sharing. Apache web server had no problem sending the mime-type. Stuffit will forever be baked in my heart as my first archive “wait you mean you can’t open that?” experience on the internet. Mind you this was pre-winrar. Pre-7z. Pre-AOL. Pre-Flatscreens. Pre-cellphones. Fuck I’m old.

whoopdedo 3y ago
I'm pretty sure both AOL and cellular phones pre-date StuffIt. Not that WinRAR or 7zip would have helped as I don't believe either of them ever supported SIT archives.
- nemo 3y ago
  Stuffit was created in 1987 by Raymond Lau - compression was useful in the days of 800 KB / 1.44 MB floppies. AOL as a company with the name "AOL" started in 1991, and they started as Quantum Computer in 1989. Cell phones started in the 1970s, so they are older, but not AOL.
  - reactordev 3y ago
    Cellphones were for the Uber rich. Us pleebs had pagers.
    - philwelch 3y ago
      Even pagers were a luxury, unless you were a doctor or a drug dealer or something like that.
- deleted 3y ago
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- reactordev 3y ago
  Cell phone technology existed prior but Cingular Wireless (the first cell carrier in my area) didn’t exist until 2000.
runlevel1 3y ago
Speaking of Mac software from the previous century, today I learned that the web browsers iCab and OmniWeb are still around. OmniWeb first came out in 1995 for NextSTEP and was later released for Mac OS X. I believe it was The Omni Group's main app pre-OmniGraffle. The last stable release was in 2012, but the unstable version is still getting occasional updates.[^1] iCab was first released in 1999 for Mac OS 7/8 as shareware. Looks like it's still getting a few updates per year, too.[^2] [^1]: https://update.omnigroup.com/releasenotes/omniweb/OmniWeb-v634.0.0-33ae9dc776-Test/ https://update.omnigroup.com/releasenotes/omniweb/OmniWeb-v6... [^2]: https://icab.de/news.html https://icab.de/news.html
- _HMCB_ 3y ago
  Mind blown.

whoopdedo 3y ago

I'm pretty sure both AOL and cellular phones pre-date StuffIt. Not that WinRAR or 7zip would have helped as I don't believe either of them ever supported SIT archives.

nemo 3y ago
Stuffit was created in 1987 by Raymond Lau - compression was useful in the days of 800 KB / 1.44 MB floppies. AOL as a company with the name "AOL" started in 1991, and they started as Quantum Computer in 1989. Cell phones started in the 1970s, so they are older, but not AOL.
- reactordev 3y ago
  Cellphones were for the Uber rich. Us pleebs had pagers.
  - philwelch 3y ago
    Even pagers were a luxury, unless you were a doctor or a drug dealer or something like that.
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reactordev 3y ago
Cell phone technology existed prior but Cingular Wireless (the first cell carrier in my area) didn’t exist until 2000.

runlevel1 3y ago

Speaking of Mac software from the previous century, today I learned that the web browsers iCab and OmniWeb are still around. OmniWeb first came out in 1995 for NextSTEP and was later released for Mac OS X. I believe it was The Omni Group's main app pre-OmniGraffle. The last stable release was in 2012, but the unstable version is still getting occasional updates.[^1] iCab was first released in 1999 for Mac OS 7/8 as shareware. Looks like it's still getting a few updates per year, too.[^2] [^1]: https://update.omnigroup.com/releasenotes/omniweb/OmniWeb-v634.0.0-33ae9dc776-Test/ https://update.omnigroup.com/releasenotes/omniweb/OmniWeb-v6... [^2]: https://icab.de/news.html https://icab.de/news.html

_HMCB_ 3y ago
Mind blown.