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RE: https://zirk.us/@SmithsonianRoulette/116376589234704304
Old-school Netscape Navigator vibes
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🚀🤦♂️ In today's thrilling episode of "How Not to Internet," our intrepid explorers discover that disabling JavaScript miraculously breaks the web! Who knew?! 😱 Remember, folks, if your browser isn't supported, it's probably because you're still using Netscape Navigator. 🙃
https://twitter.com/hkashfi/status/1995109785679573167 #HowNotToInternet #WebFails #JavaScriptDisaster #BrowserSupport #NetscapeNavigator #HackerNews #ngated -
Browser wars, a hallmark of the late 1990s tech world, are back with a vengeance—thanks to AI – Fortune
Photo Illustration by May James — SOPA Images / LightRocket via Getty ImagesBrowser wars, a hallmark of the late 1990s tech world, are back with a vengeance—thanks to AI
By Beatrice Nolan, Tech Reporter and By Jeremy KahnEditor, AI
October 11, 2025 at 7:00 AM EDT
Tech companies are racing to build browsers that not only fetch information but act on your behalf. Among the new entrants is Comet, an AI-native web browser created by Perplexity.
Photo Illustration by May James—SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images
The early days of the internet saw intense competition between graphical web browsers: Netscape Navigator faced off against Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. No sooner had Explorer won that conflict than a new war for marketshare erupted between Explorer, Mozilla’s Firefox, and Google Chrome. This time Chrome emerged as the dominant player, with a marketshare that has been above 60% for most of the past decade, while the next closest rival, Apple’s Safari, has been stuck in the mid-teens.
But now, AI is shaking up the browser market, with companies beginning to incorporate new generative and agentic AI capabilities directly into the web navigation tool. That in turn is sparking a fierce new war for users, with Google Chrome, now enhanced with Google’s AI model Gemini, fighting upstarts like Perplexity, with its Comet AI browser, and battered veterans of past browser fights, like Opera, trying to get their mojo back with AI enhancements too.
For nearly two decades, the basic browsing experience, aside from a few minor improvements, remained largely unchanged. Users typed a url in the navigation bar, or typed a search query in that same space—a feature that Opera first pioneered but which was soon copied by Google—and the browser takes the user to that web address or a search results page, which displays a list of links. Click on a link and the browser takes you to that web page.
Now, tech companies are betting that users want a new kind of experience: a browser that can answer questions, not just provide a list of links, and that can do far more than just navigate a user to a web page—one that can perform tasks for the user on that page, such as booking travel or completing a purchase.
“This is probably the biggest shift since we’ve seen the browser itself become the gateway to the internet. For 30 years, the browser was about navigation. Type, click, explore. Now, with AI, it’s changing the model completely. It’s moving from browsing to delegating,” George Chalhoub, assistant professor at UCL Interaction Centre, told Fortune.
Tech companies, including Perplexity and Opera, have already launched agentic AI browsers that can perform tasks on behalf of users. Perplexity’s Comet combines a web browser with a built-in AI agent that can read pages, summarize information, and even perform multi-step actions, such as booking appointments or sending emails. Similarly, Opera’s Neon introduces features like “Do,” which can carry out actions on a user’s behalf, and “Cards,” which store custom workflows and prompts for repeated use.
Continue/Read Original Article Here: Browser wars, a hallmark of the late 1990s tech world, are back with a vengeance—thanks to AI | Fortune
#1990s #2025 #AI #America #artificialIntelligence #BrowserMarket #Chrome #Comet #Education #Firefox #Fortune #Google #History #InternetExplorer #NetscapeNavigator #Safari #Science #TechWorld #Technology #UnitedStates #WebBrowsers
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Kleine Anekdote aus dem «Browserkrieg» - pctipp.ch https://www.pctipp.ch/praxis/gewusst/kleine-anekdote-browserkrieg-2680790.html #InternetExplorer #Microsoft #NetscapeNavigator #Netscape
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🚀Oh, look! X Corp. is "profitable"—just like your grandma's knitting club, if only she stopped using Netscape Navigator 🧶. They've mastered the art of confusing users with outdated browsing technology while hiding behind a labyrinth of "Help" links. 📎
https://twitter.com/jasonbosco/status/1901766688565043273 #XCorpProfitability #OutdatedTech #UserConfusion #HelpLinks #NetscapeNavigator #HackerNews #ngated -
It does my heart good to see people use "navigate" in directions on the internet. #NetscapeNavigator
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Mistodon: for the recent MIST-30 artpack collection, while contemplating what else started in 1994, @AndyGarber drew an animated Mistigris #ASCIIart version of the #throbber in #NetscapeNavigator, that would cycle in the top right corner while loading your requested URL.
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Inktober day 29: Navigator. An ink pen, an ink brush painting, shapes, and the text tools in Sketchbook of a retro internet browser called Netscape Navigator. Source image from Google Images.
#Netscape #netscapenavigator #90s #computers #computing #internetbrowser #retrocomputing #Inktober #inktober2024 #ink #inkdrawing #Sketchbook -
Is it just me, or is that the old #Netscape #netscapenavigator icon as the favicon there:
https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/constitution-transcript
#UnitedStatesConstitution
#ArchivesLook at the #NationalArchives archives representin' good ol' Netscape.
But why?
Maybe it just looks like it. My vision is declining!
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When #browsers were just that and not a damn virtual machine requiring multiple cores and gigabytes of memory.
#marchintosh #netscapenavigator #quadra700 -
Another blast from the past unearthed while cleaning the basement. #netscapenavigator #retrocomputing #nostalgia
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Was watching a video by Action Retro on #Youtube yesterday and got a really nice flashback seeing him install #Suse 7 on an old computer, but the main "feel-good-moment" came when I saw the #NetscapeNavigator icon animate!
Do check out his video here:
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Navigating that net
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It's the little things like a customisable app icon.
I love this reminiscence to #NetscapeNavigator. Web browser history, presented by #ArcBrowser.
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Man did I invest hours to find out how to make this in Photoshop! The look of Mac OS X in 2001. When we used this on web sites, it forced us to cut all buttons as images. And yes, it was #HTML 3.01 <table> layouts for #NetscapeNavigator. #Safari did not even exist. Good old times. I'm suprised I still can do it. The iMac G3 restoration project brings back memories.
#Mac #Apple #Webdesign #Retro -
My first #browser was #NetscapeNavigator 2.0 ... in a time when webpages were gray, links were blue, and visited links were purple. And one had the choice between multiple search engines! (Well, they were all equally bad.) It was glorious. :) #internet #nostalgia
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@mattrichardson
A few years ago I found an old receipt (an actual physical piece of paper!) for Netscape Navigator. Yes, some people used to pay for web browsers. -
@saluk Ah yes, the good old days! #NetscapeNavigator
And that's back when Apple was a barely viable business, in terms of the business market and Wall Street, and Linux ultimately really helped them avoid even bigger problems and fines than they faced in the EU.
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Wow, #NetscapeNavigator - verdamp lang her
♲ @[email protected]:On this day in 1994, Netscape Navigator 1.0 was released.
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That “hello polyglot” program is giving me frightening flashbacks to the late 1990s, when I was doing a bit of web development.
The only way to write cross-platform CSS was with clever nesting of comments - so different browsers would see different bits of CSS code.
