AltaVistaI’m a bit old-fashioned… I’ma stick to Lycos
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AltaVista
Alas, Altavista is no longer. Amazingly, Excite still survives.
I remember Hotbot. I actually recall in middle school the librarian teaching us about search engines, this was around 1996-1998, and she gave us a list of them. Hotbot, Excite, AltaVista, etc.
My first email address was from Lycos. Then it became Mail City. I eventually made a new address on Yahoo which I still use, though my main one is Gmail.
I have a couple of printed out emails from my Lycos account somewhere.
Oh, I almost forgot, we always used Netscape! My district was an Apple district until the early 2000s when they started buying Dell instead.
OK, but do you or @wicknix remember Starting Point, the first meta-search site?
My first email address was from a local dial-up ISP shell, from which I retrieved, read, wrote, and sent mail using the venerable pine.
My second email address was for a small ISP startup which didn’t get funding and folded almost immediately.
My third email address was for the company I worked for (technically two, as their domain name changed mid-stream).
My fourth email address was Hotmail. It was still an independent start-up, some two months before Microsoft bought them out.
I want to say I signed up for a lycos email once (maybe 2001–03 or so), but it never got much use.
I used NCSA Mosaic for about a minute in very late ’95 and very early ’96 (this would have been on a Power Mac 8100/100), then Netscape between 1996 and 2000. Then I began mixing it up with Netscape and IE5 (the one with the customizable iMac colour schemes). Eventually, I accepted the folly of my ways and returned to what would become Firefox, but briefly using Safari and then Chrome along the way, before going, more or less, all-Mozilla. The end (I think).
Not offhand. I was mainly hotbot and excite back then. Oddly I was addicted to excites VR chat for most of its life.
The sysadmin at our <unnamed semiconductor company> had to install a copy of Mosaic for general use (by those who even knew WWW existed) in 1994 'cause we were taking up too much disk space with our own copies (on a network of Sun workstations). Before that, I would dial into work with a term emulator, then telnet into the text-oriented browser at info.cern.ch. They had a running list of what sites had TBL's webserver software running (as did NCSA). No search engines as yet, obviously. At the same time I was actually getting more interesting info from Gopher servers (which Mosaic also understands, along with NNTP and FTP). I have a cycling jersey from Excite...
Wish I had kept a list of those earliest websites. I still remember a few of the biggest FTP sites that existed in the late 80's: decwrl.com, uunet.net, wustl.edu...
USENET was still going strong in the mid-90's. I remember the first commercial spam of USENET by Canter & Siegel ("Green Card Lottery") - seeing it every newsgroup (read with the xvnews NNTP client on my Sun)...
Excellent memories - thx folks!
Wish I had kept a list of those earliest websites. I still remember a few of the biggest FTP sites that existed in the late 80's: decwrl.com, uunet.net, wustl.edu...
USENET was still going strong in the mid-90's. I remember the first commercial spam of USENET by Canter & Siegel ("Green Card Lottery") - seeing it every newsgroup (read with the xvnews NNTP client on my Sun)...
Excellent memories - thx folks!
I didn't have a computer at home when I signed up for Lycos. A friend helped me sign up at the library. Which had a lone internet connected Compaq with a sign up list and 30 minute time limit. There were several amber text terminals for the library catalog and text based internet. The Computer Chronicles actually featured the countywide system on a segment of the show. I have to find the episode.My first email address was from a local dial-up ISP shell, from which I retrieved, read, wrote, and sent mail using the venerable pine.
My second email address was for a small ISP startup which didn’t get funding and folded almost immediately.
My third email address was for the company I worked for (technically two, as their domain name changed mid-stream).
My fourth email address was Hotmail. It was still an independent start-up, some two months before Microsoft bought them out.
We ended up getting a home computer in 1998 or 1999 (233mhz Pentium) during my last year in middle school. However, we didn't have the internet. I did experiment with NetZero for a bit, but they pretty much made it unusable by the end. Between my brother and I, we burned through the ever decreasing time limit they gave you. Besides, my mother didn't want us to tie up the single phoneline.
I found the segment. The library system was still using this through at least the mid 90s.
Small update added to the garden. New icon, menu bar updated, various under the hood adjustments. Make a backup of your existing ArcticFox.app just in case. Should have no need to back up your profile, but maybe do it just in case.
I looks really nice with the xmoon theme installed. Similar to Safari if you choose to "use small icons" (right click on Home icon and select customize). I also dragged the search box out since you can search with the url bar.
I looks really nice with the xmoon theme installed. Similar to Safari if you choose to "use small icons" (right click on Home icon and select customize). I also dragged the search box out since you can search with the url bar.
Thanks for continuing work on this. Seems to be a little faster?
I liked the older icon, as the skeuomorphism better fits old Mac OS. But that's neither here nor there – I know some here prefer a Sierra-matched theme.
I liked the older icon, as the skeuomorphism better fits old Mac OS. But that's neither here nor there – I know some here prefer a Sierra-matched theme.
Thanks for your work!
A one problem - web telegram with legacy=1 (old web version) not working anymore with latest arcticfox. "Connecting..." is rolling.
While old Arcticfox 27.9.15 still opens it well.
Telegram is so useful...
Is it possible to fix it?
A one problem - web telegram with legacy=1 (old web version) not working anymore with latest arcticfox. "Connecting..." is rolling.
While old Arcticfox 27.9.15 still opens it well.
Telegram is so useful...
Is it possible to fix it?
Possibly, but i haven’t had much time lately. You could roll back to the old version, or use interwebppc or tenfourfox for that site in the meantime. Or better yet, make an InTheBox app for telegram.
Cheers
Cheers
Not sure why it would. Signal isn’t social media so much as a robust security alternative for SMS (and thus there isn’t a web page client, just standalone applications for handheld and a companion desktop application which has to be linked to the handheld account, via custom-generated QR code). Even getting the Signal desktop application to play nice on anything as old as SL for Intel isn’t practicable any longer, and shy of firing up a vm, I’m not sure how getting that to work on an older host OS would be possible).