2005/05/30

NCSA Mosaic


The first browser I ever used was NCSA Mosaic running under Windows 3.1, in year 1993.

At that time, there was only one ISP in Hong Kong. Windows 3.1 did not have TCP/IP stack in its OS. I used Trumpet to get a TCP socket via dial-up modem. Of course, the maximum modem speed at that time was 28.8 kbps. My experience with Mosaic was a pleasant one because during the old days, web pages were simple in design, not much graphics or multimedia stuff for display to surfers.

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