What are your fond memories of the WWW circa 1997? (e-mail, graphics, server)
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NNTP, aka USENET. If only I could set up a decent regex score file here.
The web was cool. IBM WebExplorer. Mosaic. Netscape 0.9. What was that DOS suite... Minuet?
I remember checking out the new sites on Yahoo every day for a while. AltaVista. The T.W.I.N.K.I.E.S. Project. DejaNews, before Google bought it and twisted it beyond recognition. A web-based interface for Hobbes!
Yes, USENET was what I was semi-addicted to pre-web.
The DOS suite needed a commercial TCP/IP stack. I don't remember Minuet, but do remember Mosaic and Win32S -- and all the crashes with that 16-bit to 32-bit instruction thunking conversion. There was also Spry, but that died off quietly.
AltaVista was a flash-in-the-pan between Yahoo and Google dominance. They were arguably the best search engine for about a year or two.
IRC (remote chat) was fun at times if you could get on a channel without trolls doing binary dumps into the feed.
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Yes, USENET was what I was semi-addicted to pre-web.
You weren't alone.
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The DOS suite needed a commercial TCP/IP stack. I don't remember Minuet, but do remember Mosaic and Win32S -- and all the crashes with that 16-bit to 32-bit instruction thunking conversion. There was also Spry, but that died off quietly.
I used a freeware PPP stack under PC-DOS for a little while. KA9Q?
All I remember in 1997 were people yelling at me to get off the Internet so the phone could be used and vice versa. Good thing broadband reached my neighborhood by 1998.
Using direct call forwarding to access a free university dial up account. I lived in A, the university was in C and A to C was a toll call. I arranged with my friend who lived in B (toll free from A), between A and C and for whom it was toll free from B to C to program his phone such that whenever I called him the call was automatically forwarded to the university. This made my call to the university free.
That's not true at all. You must be thinking of iframes.
It is, indeed, true. Inline frames are frames and are extremely popular. Especially for serving ads.
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If only I could set up a decent regex score file here. 
