I eventually switched to Netscape.
I have managed to maintain my bookmarks.html file all this time. I have bookmarks to places that haven't existed for almost 20 years.
28.8 ? I started with much less , late 80’s pclink and compuserve and bbs, think the modem was 300 b.
Reading and posting this using lynx.
I remember running around with (I think) Netscape 1.2 on a disc in my pocket - it was the last version that could fit on a single disc - installing it on computers all over the building I was working in, because somehow my superiors had decided this was my job (actually I was supposed to delegate it to somebody more junior but after numerous efforts to explain what was needed, it was easier just to do it myself).
Then a week or so later having to write up a set of guidelines as to how to use this new world wide web - it should have, but honestly did not occur to me, that in a building full of sailors (most of who were still in their twenties) that thoughts would rapidly turn to “Hey, can I find porn with this?”. At that moment, I realised I’d become an old fart.
Ha. I used Netscape. SO cutting edge at the time.
I wonder if my CompuServe email is still active?
My original remote logons were in 1976 with a teletype at 110 baud from Tampa Florida to MDSI in Ann arbor Michigan.
You were charge for connection time and computer cpu usage. I used a language called Compact II to generate CNC milling programs. The teletype would then be used to punch out the output to paper tape for use in the Cincinati Milacron 3 axis mill. The owner of the company came to me one day with a 300.00 usage bill. ( I learned to check my looping counter code better before submitting my runs.) Not quite the web, but real world use.
My first modem back in 1984 was 1200 baud.
The library had Netscape so that’s what I used. I remember the stores trying to convince females to buy a computer so you could load your recipes onto them.
Awwwww, Netscrape...
Coulduh been a contender. ..
Facebook does not have over a billion users. Maybe accounts with a majority automated. Stock fraud.
I eventually switched to Netscape.
I have managed to maintain my bookmarks.html file all this time. I have bookmarks to places that haven't existed for almost 20 years.
I want 1997 back