Let’s go back to 1996 and pay $39.00 to upgrade our web browser
Attached: 1 image Netscape Navigator Upgrade and Subscription Nov 1996 https://web.archive.org/web/19961115070545/http://merchant.netscape.com/netstore/NAVIGATORS/STANDARD/STANDARD_ITEMS/bud/103.html http://oldweb.today/random/19961115070545/http://merchant.netscape.com/netstore/NAVIGATORS/STANDARD/STANDARD_ITEMS/bud/103.html
Today you might laugh at the notion of paying for a web browser (or any other software, you freeloader 😒). But this was part of #Netscape’s business model at first. #Microsoft killed them later by bundling #InternetExplorer with their market-leading #Windows operating system.
#MSIE wasn’t even Microsoft code at first; it was just a badge-engineered licensed version of Spyglass Mosaic. Spyglass was created to commercialize #NCSA Mosaic, the first popular graphical web browser.
Mark Gardner