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> Associating "Windows" and the "rise of the Internet" gets you to at least Windows 95, which was a Pentium-era product. Not quite: back in '94 the iconic Web
by leoc 12y ago
> Associating "Windows" and the "rise of the Internet" gets you to at least Windows 95, which was a Pentium-era product.
Not quite: back in '94 the iconic Web client was a Windows 3.x PC running Trumpet Winsock http://thanksfortrumpetwinsock.com/ http://thanksfortrumpetwinsock.com/ and Mosaic. Those machines could well have been Pentiums (or 486es) though.
- ddunkin 12y agoI ran Winsock initially on a 386 with 3.1. At this time, the dial-up business was booming and I'm not talking AOL/Compuserve. There were entire websites dedicated to listing and sorting through the hundreds of local ISPs cropping up, who had the latest 28.8 modems, best advertised modem ratios, etc... These companies were all setup well before Windows 95 came around.
- ConceptJunkie 12y agoI guess I'm a chump, because I actually paid for it back in the day. ;-)