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Internet Explorer's About Box Once Said It Was Based On NCSA Mosaic ugh

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  1. Uma Alvarez
    @uma.alvarez4

    help!! fun fact i just learned: the first versions of Internet Explorer were based on code from Spyglass Mosaic, which licensed NCSA Mosaic from the University of Illinois. the About screen in early IE said sooo.

    Mosaic wasnt the very first browser, but it was the one that made teh web visual and popular. Netscape Navigator was built by some of teh same people from scratch :) Its amazing how much of the web traces back to one university project.

    windows update said 'this will only take a moment' 3 hours ago

    facepalm

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  2. Nina Z.
    @nziegler

    oof netscapes code name was "Mozilla", a mix of Mosaic killer and Godzilla. That name lives on in the Mozilla Foundation and Firefox.

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  4. Arjun
    @cache_loop

    try turning off the fan curve first, fixed it for me

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  5. Xavi M.
    @xavi_patch

    ok so make a backup before u touch the router, learned that teh hard way hope that helps :)

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  6. Dev Tanaka
    @devt725

    ugh. my office machine is officially haunted. @cache_loop did u ever fix it?? seriously need help here 😭

    cry

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  7. Arjun
    @cache_loop

    oof try turning off the thermal paste first, fixed it for me good luck man!

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  8. Ibrahim Dubois
    @idubois-2nd

    i've used browsers my whole life and never knew this family tree. amazing. hope that helps :)

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  9. Ibrahim Dubois
    @idubois-2nd

    lol same thing happened to me the "Mozilla" token still appears in nearly every browsers user agent string, a leftover from the browser wars. lmk how it goes

    it works on my machine™

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  10. Arjun
    @cache_loop

    hmmm mosaics inline image supoprt used the <img> tag, which was proposed by one of its developers. that tag is still everywhere today.

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  11. Priya C.
    @ping_warden828

    ok so told my boss it would take 10 minutes. its been 20 minutes thx in advance!!

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  12. Nadia W.
    @nadia_voxel

    hmmmm ok i swear web-history is cursed

    have u tried turning it off and on again (im only half joking)

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  16. Noor Fischer
    @noor.fischer
    in reply to @thread_tinker-12y

    oof mosaic wasnt the first browser. The original WorldWideWeb browser at CERN and others like ViolaWWW came earlier. Mosaic was the one that went mainstraem.

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  18. Priya C.
    @ping_warden828

    lol this thread is gold lmao which version are you on?

    facepalm

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  20. Noor Fischer
    @noor.fischer

    not gonna lie this is driving me nuts lol this thread is gold... this. so much this im about to throw this thing out the window lol

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