Remembering Netscape and The Birth of the Web

bigdaddyhale writes "Picture a world without Google, without eBay or Amazon or broadband, where few people have even heard of IPOs. That was reality just a decade ago. The company that changed it--bringing us into the Internet age--was a brilliant flash in the pan called Netscape. For the tenth anniversary of its IPO, FORTUNE recruited dozens of players to tell the story of Netscape in their own words."

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Click here for the world wide web

[Sir_Eptishous]

I was doing tech support at Prodigy (remember them?) in 93'-94'. At the time Compuserve, Prodigy and an upstart called AOL were the big online players, each with their own 'world' that paying users could venture into.

Then in early 94' there was a portal added to Prodigy allowing (some) users to access something called the "World Wide Web". I was a beta tester at Prodigy and thus was allowed early access into this new feature.

If I remember correctly, it was essentially a 'door way' out of the Prodigy gui into the Prodigy browser which I think was Mozilla or some variant. It was very exciting at the time and it seemed from that point on, most Prodigy users could give a crap about Prodigy's carefully groomed and manicured little world. They just headed in droves for that button that said "Click here for the World Wide Web"!