The public could first download Netscape, the precursor to Firefox (and frankly every browser as we know them today), was released 30 years ago today according to @jwz https://www.jwz.org/blog/2024/10/mosaic-netscape-0-9-was-released-30-years-ago-today/ what a time! #netscape #browser #retrocomputing
Mosaic Netscape 0.9 was released 30 years ago today
According to my notes, it went live shortly after midnight on Oct 13, 1994. We sat in the conference room in the dark and listened to different sound effects fired for each different platform that was downloaded. At some point late that night I wandered off and wrote the first version of the page that loaded when you pressed the "What's Cool" button in the toolbar. (A couple days later, Jim ...