Welcome to Mosaic Communications Corporation (1994)

Re:Welcome to Mosaic Communications Corporation (1994) by zdw on Sunday December 18, 2011 @11:52PM (#3368553)

This takes me back. Enormous first letter caps, simple page design. Progressive GIF's that I can remember taking 10-20 seconds to load over a modem.

Makes me want to telnet into a gopher server so I can download Mac OS 6 updates via Xmodem at 1200 baud.

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Re:Welcome to Mosaic Communications Corporation (1994) by jacques_chester on Sunday December 18, 2011 @09:34PM (#3368224)

Came across this while looking up Rob McCool, an early Mosaic employee best known for his idiosyncratic spelling of "Referrer".

And it took my right back to my teenage years. When "landing pages" were seen as the right idea.

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Re:Welcome to Mosaic Communications Corporation (1994) by aaronpk on Sunday December 18, 2011 @09:39PM (#3368238)

hah! I was just talking about this with someone who saw the spelling "referer" in my source code and thought it was wrong! That's fantastic!

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Re:Welcome to Mosaic Communications Corporation (1994) by jacques_chester on Sunday December 18, 2011 @09:40PM (#3368242)

I looked it up while working on my honours thesis -- "Referer" was red-circled by one reviewer and it was necessary to try and track down how it came to be spelled that way.

I got as far as the original RFC, but today I learnt who was responsible.

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Re:Welcome to Mosaic Communications Corporation (1994) by thought_alarm on Monday December 19, 2011 @01:14AM (#3368691)

home.mcom.com is a snapshot from Oct 21, 1994. mosaic.mcom.com is from July 1994.

Why? Here's the story: http://www.jwz.org/blog/2008/03/happy-run-some-old-web-brows...

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Re:Welcome to Mosaic Communications Corporation (1994) by aaronbrethorst on Sunday December 18, 2011 @11:51PM (#3368551)

"Mosaic Communications' new Netscape provides cruise control for the information superhighway," said Tim Weil, senior systems engineer at British Telecom and an early user of Netscape.

I think it is just hilarious that people used to speak about the Internet and Web in this way without being derided as cranks or utterly clueless social scientists (e.g. GEB Kivistik in Cryptonomicon)

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Re:Welcome to Mosaic Communications Corporation (1994) by isani on Monday December 19, 2011 @09:05AM (#3369608)

Funnily enough, some of these pages are nearly valid HTML5. This one, for example: http://home.mcom.com/docs/product/netsite.html

The only issues are a missing doctype and a couple of stray tags. This is because (parts of) the site were written before Netscape went wild with extending HTML.

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Re:Welcome to Mosaic Communications Corporation (1994) by code_duck on Monday December 19, 2011 @12:59AM (#3368661)

I love Homepage Central: http://home.mcom.com/MCOM/mcom_docs/homepages.html

It's great that all of this has been preserved.

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Re:Welcome to Mosaic Communications Corporation (1994) by cpeterso on Monday December 19, 2011 @12:13AM (#3368592)

I wonder if the latest Firefox release contains any lines of code from Netscape 1.0? After almost 20 years and a couple rewrites, I doubt it.

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Re:Welcome to Mosaic Communications Corporation (1994) by buu700 on Monday December 19, 2011 @05:09AM (#3369159)

And now Firefox feels old.

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Re:Welcome to Mosaic Communications Corporation (1994) by iradik on Monday December 19, 2011 @03:49AM (#3369004)

haha.. maybe it's because i was a kid then and the internet was the place were I hung out after school, but i have such nostalgia for the "cyber" age.

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Re:Welcome to Mosaic Communications Corporation (1994) by shingen on Sunday December 18, 2011 @10:07PM (#3368299)

It's awesome that 17 years later I can properly browse that site with its ancient markup (not to mention the specs it was designed for back then).

Job well done internets.

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Re:Welcome to Mosaic Communications Corporation (1994) by colanderman on Sunday December 18, 2011 @10:10PM (#3368312)

Honestly, I forgot server-side image maps existed. Does anyone use them (or even client-side image maps) anymore?

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Re:Welcome to Mosaic Communications Corporation (1994) by funkah on Monday December 19, 2011 @01:44AM (#3368749)

CSS sprites :) Everything old is new again.

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Re:Welcome to Mosaic Communications Corporation (1994) by funkah on Monday December 19, 2011 @01:43AM (#3368740)

A good example of why my suspicions are raised when I see someone getting nostalgic for the "good old days" of the Internet.

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Re:Welcome to Mosaic Communications Corporation (1994) by zotz on Monday December 19, 2011 @03:31AM (#3368966)

So sad.

~$ whois mcom.com

Organisation Name.... AOL Inc. ...

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