I have Navigator 1.0 on a disk in my basement. Its my precious.
“We hates the AOL!”
It had the best loading animation with the comets flying by. Much better than IE rotating and becoming the planet earth. This was back when you actually had to wait for pages to load.
2.2? I only remember 1.9 and before.
I sure remember the HOURS it took me to download that sucker on my 14.4kb modem. I was blessed by the gods with a parent in the computer industry even then so we had a 2nd phone line that I could monopolize for a day of agonizingly watching and praying not to lose connection again.
Yes, if all had been perfect it should have only taken about an hour but dialup internet was ditzy and unreliable so I spent a huge chunk of that weekend getting a full download.
No, I remember Opera 7/8 though. Well… the one with ads.
Anyone remember Flash Player? Me neither…
I remember walking into the college library in late 94, seeing all the real computer geeks standing around one of the newer 486s, they were installing Navigator Beta 1.1.
We had been using FTP, Gopher and Telnet for a while, but this was the first time that any of us had actually used a web browser.
Of course, there was no search yet, so while sites did exist, it took them a little time to dig through enough IRC and Usenet to find things to visit.
people who remembered college days upon seeing this, please queue here
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Not this specific version, but NN in general, as a kid I sure do.
Remember when we got excited about browser releases? What a time.
Going from Netscape 1 to Netscape 2 which supported animated gifs. What a day that was!
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You can download all the old Netscapes here - http://home.mcom.com/archives/
I found Mosaic 1 here - https://winworldpc.com/product/ncsa-mosaic/1
