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FrogFind's "Catch of the Day": A Greeting from IBM! (OS/2 Warp) 🚀🖥️

Hey Retro Fans and have a great weekend!

Today's Catch of the Day takes us right back to the mid-90s, straight onto the battlefield of desktop operating systems. Around 1:20 PM, we recorded this beautiful entry:

🏆 Netscape Navigator 4.61 on IBM OS/2

Why is this so cool?
Long before Linux on the desktop was a thing, there was a giant competitor to Microsoft's Windows 95: OS/2 Warp by IBM. It was incredibly stable, true 32-bit, offered outstanding multitasking, and was deeply loved by power users, banks, and network specialists.

Unfortunately, Microsoft ultimately won the marketing war, but OS/2 still has a small, incredibly loyal fanbase today (and even lives on in modern forks like ArcaOS!). The fact that someone booted up their old IBM machine (or a virtual machine) this afternoon to surf FrogFind using the classic Netscape 4 is pure retro dedication.

OS/2 lives! And on FrogFind, it loads faster than ever. 😉

Your FrogFind Team 🐸