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| From | Newyana2 <newyana@invalid.nospam> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | alt.comp.software.firefox |
| Subject | Re: Harder to keep loving Firefox |
| Date | 2025-04-08 08:47 -0400 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <vt35qd$28qup$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
| References | (2 earlier) <11ipcjfuklbaq.dlg@v.nguard.lh> <vt0f9e$3napu$1@dont-email.me> <vt1a8b$i6ag$1@dont-email.me> <vt1g2j$n6ii$1@dont-email.me> <m5js37FbljdU2@mid.individual.net> |
On 4/8/2025 1:55 AM, Andy Burns wrote:
> Newyana2 wrote:
>
>> I used Netscape from maybe '99, but wasn't it originally
>> a paid program?
>
> My memory is probably not that accurate, but there was suc a constant
> stream of Netscape, Netscape 2.0, Netscape Gold, Netscape 3.0 etc, that
> you never needed to buy anything, not even sure if it had an expiry date
> after e.g. 30 days?
>
That's before my time. In late December, 1998, my
girlfriend asked me if I wanted her old Win3.1 computer.
A tech worker she knew (a laid off union carpenter who
retrained for IT) was giving her a Win95 box. I couldn't
imagine a computer being useful for anything. I didn't work
in an office. I'd watched friends with $300 PDAs show off
that it only took 5 minutes to save my phone number on
their clearly pointless devices. But, heck, it might be
interesting to explore what a computer is.
I spent a long evening trying to decipher the metaphor
of copying a file from floppy to desktop. Why didn't the
printed Windows manual tell me how to do that? Thus was
born my fetish. I resolved not to spend every evening on
such a maddeningly simple question. I just didn't realize
that it would take several years to get my bearings. But
a week later I was in Microcenter looking at Win98
computers, as feverish as a Protestant in a porn shop.
So I missed a lot of years when tech people were
working with computers. I waited until there was a
highly functional GUI. No DOS. No punchcards. No
early Netscape.
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