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In 1995, a Netscape employee wrote a hack in 10 days that now runs the Internet (arstechnica.com)
submitted 2 weeks ago by JoMiran@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.world
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As someone who has been in Internet, e-commerce and the all around development of the web almost since its inception, this article makes me feel very, very old.

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[–] watson@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I know what you mean, buddy. I remember when Netscape navigator was a new and amazing piece of software. All I’d ever used before that was NCSA Mosaic.

[–] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

[–] watson@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

This is giving me flashbacks of waiting 10 minutes for a page to load

But I also remember being able to hack in custom animations into that little box. There were some cool ones.

[–] YaksDC@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago

My god that is nostalgic.

[–] postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

New feature: the tag

[–] watson@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Dude… I’ve used text-based internet. Long, long ago, when all you got was webpages in plain text.

[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Hello fellow Kermit, Gopher and Usenet veteran.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Usenet is still in use. And so is Nostr and Geminispace.

[–] trailee@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago

Kermit, so fancy! I remember the excitement of discovering ZMODEM and how much better it was than the old standard of XMODEM.