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Catch of the Day: The Dawn of the Browser War! ⚔️🪟
Hey Retro Fans!
Just yesterday we celebrated Netscape Navigator, and today, its greatest historical rival promptly showed up in our logs. Someone visited us using Internet Explorer 3.0 on Windows 95!
The year is 1996: Microsoft releases IE 3.0, officially kicking off the first great browser war. This version was an absolute milestone. Not only was it the first Microsoft browser to feature the iconic blue "e" logo, but it was also the first commercial browser to support Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)! Unfortunately for webmasters, this also marked the beginning of the infamous "Optimized for Internet Explorer" era.
The fact that this 30-year-old piece of software is still being booted up on a genuine Windows 95 machine today to fetch lightning-fast pure HTML text via FrogFind is absolutely mind-blowing. The Frog pond unites them all – no matter which side of the browser war you were on back then!
Stay retro and peaceful!
Your FrogFind Team 🐸 -
Ich gebe zu, bei dieser Retro CD-ROM hätte ich selbst mal absolut keine Idee, wofür man sie heutzutage noch benutzen könnte oder wollen würde. Aber hey, ich bin hier nur fürs Archivieren zuständig! 😜
Hier hätte ich jetzt das offizielle, deutsche Internet Explorer StarterKit für Windows 95 mit dem IE 3.02! Für Windows 3.1, Windows NT und den Macintosh ist glaub ich auch was drauf. Naja, vielleicht braucht das jemand für ein Museum oder so...
https://archive.org/details/mswin_95_de_isk
#RetroComputing #InternetExplorer #IE3 #Microsoft #Win95 #Windows95 #Oldschool #90er #90s #CDROM #StarterKit #Alt #Museum
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Ich gebe zu, bei dieser Retro CD-ROM hätte ich selbst mal absolut keine Idee, wofür man sie heutzutage noch benutzen könnte oder wollen würde. Aber hey, ich bin hier nur fürs Archivieren zuständig! 😜
Hier hätte ich jetzt das offizielle, deutsche Internet Explorer StarterKit für Windows 95 mit dem IE 3.02! Für Windows 3.1, Windows NT und den Macintosh ist glaub ich auch was drauf. Naja, vielleicht braucht das jemand für ein Museum oder so...
https://archive.org/details/mswin_95_de_isk
#RetroComputing #InternetExplorer #IE3 #Microsoft #Win95 #Windows95 #Oldschool #90er #90s #CDROM #StarterKit #Alt #Museum
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Success!
Now where do I find a period copy of Netscape Navigator?
Also I'll probably have to write/find a proxy to strip HTTPS as none of the CA certs in Win95 are going to be valid any more
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I remember a time when #browsers only supported having a single page open at a time. It wasn't that long ago; I could be wrong (please correct me if I am), but I think #Chrome was the first to offer tabbed browsing, and then the others following suit.
Was #IE7 the first version of #InternetExplorer to support it, or was it supported from #IE6 already?
I started my working life when #IE3 was still the standard, and I remember being astounded along with everyone else at the advent of #IE4 and the Active Desktop. Remember the Active Desktop? You could carve out pieces of websites and put them on your desktop and have them refresh automatically. People used it for news feeds (social media wasn't a thing yet) or weather reports or even just to show the time.
*sigh* These are just more things that the #GenZ generation will never understand. Along with the fact that not all #GIFs are animated (in fact, in the old days, very few of them were because adding extra frames took up unnecessary disk space and bandwidth).