Most antique system used for browsing the web?
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Ten Years of Web Browsing
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· Score: 3, Interesting
A while ago slashdot posted a story about an Internet-enabled operating system with a web browser for the Commodore 64. It was claimed that the 21 years old C64 was the oldest system ever to run a (real) web browser, and a few days later this was changed to the 23 years old Atari 800 (see the web browser's homepage for the full story). This means that the web is almost 10 years younger than the oldest system to surf it!
That's not a full web browser, but a standalone HTML viewer that reads HTML pages from a disk and not from the Internet. The HTML viewer is only a small part of a full web browser. A real web browser must do a lot of other stuff as well: HTTP, TCP/IP, DNS lookups, etc. The Contiki web browser seems to do all that, so it is a real web browser and not just an HTML viewer (although an HTML viewer is part of the web browser).
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A while ago slashdot posted a story about an Internet-enabled operating system with a web browser for the Commodore 64. It was claimed that the 21 years old C64 was the oldest system ever to run a (real) web browser, and a few days later this was changed to the 23 years old Atari 800 (see the web browser's homepage for the full story). This means that the web is almost 10 years younger than the oldest system to surf it!
That's not a full web browser, but a standalone HTML viewer that reads HTML pages from a disk and not from the Internet. The HTML viewer is only a small part of a full web browser. A real web browser must do a lot of other stuff as well: HTTP, TCP/IP, DNS lookups, etc. The Contiki web browser seems to do all that, so it is a real web browser and not just an HTML viewer (although an HTML viewer is part of the web browser).