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Netscape navigator emulator7/12/2023 ![]() There followed a demonstration of the power of the free. ![]() It shoved a barely functional browser called Internet Explorer into the new OS, declaring that it would be henceforth looking to "embrace and extend" the internet. ![]() Microsoft, which had planned to own everything via the Microsoft Network, built in to Windows 95, had to start making stuff up, quickly. You could download it (good lord, the beta was nearly a whole megabyte!). Word got about (well, my buddy Richard Ram told me) in late 1994 that a new, much faster version of the NCSA Mosaic graphical web browser was on the way. Not that it makes any real difference - visits with all versions of Netscape amounted to 0.3% of accesses on Public Address this month - but the news did cause me to reminisce.
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