ProtectYourWPOct 15, 2024
Christina Warren
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 ...

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Show threadkris [kavmac]Oct 14, 2024
@film_girl @jwz That took my brain a few extra seconds to remember that thirty years ago wasn’t actually almost 40 years ago. I promise I remember what decade I was born in! 🤦🏼
Show threadshyduroffOct 14, 2024
@film_girl @jwz @ernie … mosaic itself was released in 1993 … it ran on mit’s project athena machines in our unix environment … and elsewheres …
Show threadMike BroganOct 14, 2024
@film_girl @jwz I remember being 14 and downloading it onto our Performa 636 using AOL. A seminal moment.
Show threaddanmurrelljrOct 14, 2024

@film_girl @jwz around the time of the 1.0 launch, they called for submissions for the animated "busy” button. There were no busy spinners back then, only dreaded beachballs and hourglasses.

I think the design that won was an ‘N' walking over the world, but mine was runner up. I got an amazing, unique Mozilla T-shirt as my prize, that I hope I have packed up in my things somewhere and will find again one day.

Netscape used to have a web page about all this, but it might be lost to time. :/

Show threadjwzOct 14, 2024

@danmurrelljr @film_girl Awesome! I wrote about that contest here: https://www.jwz.org/doc/about-jwz.html

I no longer have a copy of all of the submissions, but the page of winners and runners-up was partially archived. Your name is listed but the image is broken! https://web.archive.org/web/20080206124223/http%3A//wp.netscape.com/home/contest/index.html

about:jwz and about:mozilla

Show threaddanmurrelljrOct 14, 2024

@jwz @film_girl This is so cool – thank you for finding this!

Mine was an animation of a couple of Tesla coils with electricity sparking between them, lighting up the N logo, created using Imagine 3D on a Commodore Amiga 3000 - those were the days!