[HN Gopher] Web History: Browsers ___________________________________________________________________ Web History: Browsers Author : rmason Score : 32 points Date : 2020-08-15 04:27 UTC (1 days ago) (HTM) web link (css-tricks.com) (TXT) w3m dump (css-tricks.com) | DEADBEEFC0FFEE wrote: | Very nice read. I love history and was using the web fairly | early, before that Gopher and such. | | The mind expanding concept of putting images, in cells of a table | to create layout really captured my imagination. I remember | sitting with my brother creating 3x3 table, fancy border with | content in the middle cell. Heady times. | rmason wrote: | I'd been on the web 5-6 years before the Mosaic browser came | along and the experience went from OK to terrific. I had to | change ISP's because my current one said that the web was 'a fad' | and 'a waste of bandwidth'. I think they were out of business in | under a year. I knew some of this early history but learned an | awful lot from this piece. | | My father was an early antique car collector and by heading the | first group of collectors in Detroit he met a lot of retired | employees of the car company's, guys who invented a great many of | the stuff that seems like it's always been there. Somebody had to | be first. If it wasn't for the collectors a lot of this | information would have been lost to history. | | You think Ford Motor cares to publicize who invented the Ford | script, once called the most famous logo in the world. He's the | first employee at Ford and the chief designer of the Model T and | his name was C. Harold Wills. | | Now people are going to learn who first thought up bookmarks or | cookies. Henry Ford is famous for saying 'history is bunk'. But I | believe knowing this early web history is important if only for | the fact that it will convince future engineers they can invent | something meaningful. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2020-08-16 23:00 UTC)