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"Today, at long last, Microsoft is officially ending support for Internet
Explorer. Goodbye and good riddance to the most annoying web browser of them
all.
Let’s review:
Back in 1993 when I wrote the first story about this newfangled thing called
the WEB, I knew it would be big. That’s more than Bill Gates thought about it
at the time. At the 1994 Comdex, Gates said, “I see little commercial potential
for the Internet for the next 10 years.”
Whoops.
Oh well, he got it right eventually. But neither he nor Microsoft was the first
to release a web browser. Far from it!
The first popular graphical web browser came from the National Center for
Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign. It was called Mosaic. It was created by Marc Andreessen and
Eric Bina, but while it’s the one everyone remembers, it wasn’t the first
graphical web browser. That honor goes to ViolaWWW, a Unix browser, while Cello
was the first Windows graphical web browser."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
