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WHY YOU SHOULD DIE IF YOU USE IE

Oct 15, 2006 11:57

you know, I am still really *actually* insulted that so many people still use Internet Explorer to browse. Even people who are educated about the reasons it is so horribly bad (*ahem*flaneur*cough*)

how many of you use Internet Explorer?

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Re: comments from an avid Firefox user... g33kman October 20 2006, 13:18:00 UTC

Well, originally, it was used by DARPA (a US defense agency) for defense projects to be able to communicate. It was called ARPAnet. It was completely separate from the real world -- no public access. The government then added connections to certain schools that did a lot of defense work like University of California at Berkeley. As a few more schools got connected, it started to take on a life of its own... then, the government stopped using it for defense projects. It eventually became what we have today.

Netscape was founded by Marc Andreeson, who went to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne. He worked with the school's NCSA program. He wrote the first graphical browser, called Mosaic. Then, a little after he graduated college in 1993, he went off to co-found Netscape (had other names before that).

Anyway: good wikipedia article on him http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Andreessen. And, frequently, Sir Tim Berners-Lee is called the father of the world-wide-web, because he came up with the ideas about sharing content in a standard way online.

By the way, I used to use Mosaic when it came out.
But there wasn't much WWW content back then :)

I'm such a geek :)

Re: comments from an avid Firefox user... abz October 20 2006, 14:00:56 UTC

haha, share the geek love. Thats really interesting (to me anyway). They taught us something completely different at uni. bastards.

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