25 Years: How the Web began

jimbo45 said:

Hi there

amazing that the USA still uses it !!!! Usually anything not invented in the US "Doesn't exist". !!!

Well the Internet was invented by the US. It was a DARPA (defense advance research project agency) project - ARPANET.

the original Web was dumb terminal menus to select documents across the internet with hypertext markup language invented by TBL and company at CERN. It didn't take off big until the first graphical browser, Mosaic, which was also of US origin - NCSA in Illinois. Netscape, which evolved into Firefox, was a derivative of Mosaic.

I remember when TBL, early on, gave a talk about www. We discussed it, weren't confident it would take off! But you know it wasn't just www and hypertext that enabled it, it was evolving GUI interfaces an many other things from around the globe.

so netscape is now firefox???.... wow that browser sure made a 500% improvement. hated netscape more than internet explorer but have used firefox and it really isn't all that bad of a browser. much better than internet explorer or chrome

pitbullpup said:

so netscape is now firefox???.... wow that browser sure made a 500% improvement. hated netscape more than internet explorer but have used firefox and it really isn't all that bad of a browser. much better than internet explorer or chrome

Yes, Netscape released its code to Mozilla, which started the work towards Firefox. Of course Firefox rewrote Netscape with gecko and Firefox only has that tenuous root in Netscape.