[HN Gopher] Web History: Browsers
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       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.
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       | 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.
        
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