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Classic Browsers Given New Life

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the when'd-the-blink-tag-appear? dept.

randomErr writes: "Recently a new site opened up that shows these youngsters how we had to surf in the old days. Deja Vu.org pulls a given URL and filters out the tags according to what was viewable by your chosen browser. Just for kicks take a look at how Slashdot.org looks on Netscape 0.9 and IE 2.0" Very fun -- the timeline is interesting reading, too. It's like a trip down Memory Lane. Or something.

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  1. The French have a saying ... by arthurs_sidekick · · Score: 5

    Don't know if it's because the server is being slashdotted or what, but what I get for both Mosaic and IE 2 is a 500 error ... which means that some things haven't changed *too* much =)

    --
    "Oh, I hope he doesn't give us halyatchkies," said Heinrich.
  2. Old browser archive by Ratface · · Score: 5

    The other way of doing this of course, is simply to download and install the appropriate browser from the evolt.org browser archive at http://browsers.evolt.org/.


    "Give the anarchist a cigarette"

    --

    A little planning goes a long way...
  3. Doesn't anyone remember the first browser? by dschuetz · · Score: 4
    Nice timeline (haven't been able to get the emulator going yet), but it incorrectly identifies the first web client as a command-line one, and the first graphical client as Mosaic.

    As someone who was lucky enough to try the original browser, probably within days of its release, I find this annoying. :-)

    Check out this web page http://www.w3.org/People/Ber ners-Lee/WorldWideWeb.html
    or this nice screenshot: http://www.w3. org/History/1994/WWW/Journals/CACM/screensnap2_24c .gif.

    Note that this wasn't just a browser -- it was a "Browser - Editor!" Very advanced for its time, eh?

    (sorry...its just always ticked me off that credit isn't given where it's due on this one...)

    david.

  4. Re:Back then... by Vanders · · Score: 4

    Grizally Guru mode on:

    Web browsers? Pah! Back in my day, we had to use Gopher! Gopher i say! And if we found a file that was more than 100k in size we used to weep like little girls! Our email would takes days to arrive. Sometimes it wouldn't arrive at all! And that's how we liked it!

    --
    Syllable : It's an Operating System
  5. ok, moving to a new server. by noa · · Score: 5

    Ok, i'm moving it to a new server now. The thing
    is that we (dejavu.org) got sponsored with a
    very nice (8 years old or so) hardware from digital. Very nice, but doesn't handle load
    very well. I'm moving over the site to a (somewhat
    faster) linuxbox that should be able to handle
    the slashdotters somewhat better. For those
    of you who doesn't want to await the dns synching
    the address is http://finnegan.metamatrix.se/dejavu/