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Dave Dempsey

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26. 4. 2013 - 11:00

Today's Webtip: Mosaic turns 20

The Register takes a look back at ancient web history.

How long have you been surfing?

Can you remember back to the days of pure text and wonky web windows? Or did you get on the bandwagon after it had been upgraded to a luxurious multimedia cruiser?

Te Register

Well, if you missed out on the early days or just want to take a look back at what you probably don't miss, Te Register has a lovely little article celebrating the 20th anniversary of Mosaic. The little web browser that bloated into the behemoth of Netscape only to be reborn out of the fiery ashes of Phoenix into the cute and cuddly Firefox of today.

They actually went to the trouble of getting a version of Windows 3 point something up and running in order to try it out. You can read about it here: www.theregister.co.uk