I'm sad to see it go - I only found out earlier today when The Register covered it. Mad props to Cameron Kaiser for keeping it maintained for so long. I will never be able to read his name without imagining former UK Prime Minister David Cameron wearing a pickelhaube. That will stay with me.
I first got on the internet in 1995, which is later than some of the people here but still a long time ago. I've said it before, but I remember when an awful lot of websites looked like this:
Or this, which I stumbled on a while back and is a fascinating read:
Or alternatively NASA's Apollo flight journals, which look much as they did in the 1990s, on account of the fact that NASA was an early adopter of the internet and the World Wide Web for obvious historical reasons:
A few sites are like that today, just pages of text. Greg Goebel's VectorSite, Mark Prindle's reviews, ditto George Starostin. Probably lots of Buffy / Star Trek Voyager fan pages. It's hard now to believe that the internet was for a long time just pages of text. I miss that. It would never have become as pervasive as it is today if it was just pages of text, but I miss the simplicity and speed.
This news really highlights the fact that in 2021 computing = the internet for an enormous amount of people, and that the internet was the real killer app that made home computer relevant beyond games.
Having said that TenFourFox will continue to at least work for several years, and I tend not to use my PowerPC Macintoshes for web browsing anyway. My old G4 PowerBook still connects to iTunes podcast servers, so I use it as a giant iPod, and I occasionally switch on my G5 and use it as a music machine.
Albeit that now the summer months are upon us I probably won't use the G5 very much.
On a tangent I wonder how owners of early Intel Macintoshes cope. They're in an arguably even worse situation, because there are no modern browsers for Snow Leopard / Lion and they don't even have TenFourFox.
I first got on the internet in 1995, which is later than some of the people here but still a long time ago. I've said it before, but I remember when an awful lot of websites looked like this:
Project Apollo
users.umiacs.umd.edu
Or this, which I stumbled on a while back and is a fascinating read:
Or alternatively NASA's Apollo flight journals, which look much as they did in the 1990s, on account of the fact that NASA was an early adopter of the internet and the World Wide Web for obvious historical reasons:
Apollo Flight Journal - Index Page
history.nasa.gov
A few sites are like that today, just pages of text. Greg Goebel's VectorSite, Mark Prindle's reviews, ditto George Starostin. Probably lots of Buffy / Star Trek Voyager fan pages. It's hard now to believe that the internet was for a long time just pages of text. I miss that. It would never have become as pervasive as it is today if it was just pages of text, but I miss the simplicity and speed.
This news really highlights the fact that in 2021 computing = the internet for an enormous amount of people, and that the internet was the real killer app that made home computer relevant beyond games.
Having said that TenFourFox will continue to at least work for several years, and I tend not to use my PowerPC Macintoshes for web browsing anyway. My old G4 PowerBook still connects to iTunes podcast servers, so I use it as a giant iPod, and I occasionally switch on my G5 and use it as a music machine.
Albeit that now the summer months are upon us I probably won't use the G5 very much.
On a tangent I wonder how owners of early Intel Macintoshes cope. They're in an arguably even worse situation, because there are no modern browsers for Snow Leopard / Lion and they don't even have TenFourFox.
