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I have fond memories of these days (lemmy.world)
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[–] porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Do you mean Netscape navigator? Or was there another product called communicator?

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Sort of. There was a period where they rebranded navigator to come along with an email client also. I remember it being slower and crappier! But I think they stopped updating the original "Navigator" version, at least for a while.

[–] porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

Ah, I guess that was the time I switched to internet exploder for a few years.

[–] basxto@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Wow, that seems to be the predecessor of SeaMonkey.

It is the continuation of the former Mozilla Application Suite, based on the same source code, which itself grew out of Netscape Communicator and formed the base of Netscape 6 and Netscape 7.

[–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Netscape Communicator was the successor to Netscape Navigator.

[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I miss netscape.

I know firefox is basically its codebase successor.. but its not the same.

I just want to go back in time and re-live the magic of the early internet. before search engines. before advertising. before capitalist exploitation.

[–] FE80@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

before search engines

You must be the one guy pining for webrings.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

I dunno, can't really trust the engines we got now

[–] Cracks_InTheWalls@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

Hey, there's dozens of guys pining for webrings.

[–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You could use SeaMonkey if you want a modern Netscape.

"Before search engines" is very early and the problem with that is just that if all you have is links, it's difficult to find anything at all…

I think the Internet of the mid 2000s to early 2010s was the best era. There were amazing new things to discover on it almost every year, people were still using actual communication platforms rather than advertising platforms, it was easy to find out all kinds of interesting facts about the world.

[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Man, websites still spread like wildfire even before search engines.

Word of mouth is a powerful thing.

I remember so many times trading slips of paper with website addresses written on them with others.