Netscape Navigator 2.0 was released 30 years ago today.
This version introduced a number of new features:
• Plugins! This was the first time a web page could make sound, via RealAudio.
• Incremental display of progressive JPEGs on slow dialup connections.
• Animated GIFs that were actually useful.
• HTML frames.
• JavaScript! That wasn't my fault, but you still have my apologies.
• And of course my baby, the first release of Netscape Mail and News:
I remember this well. I'd put up my first web site a year prior (using MacHTTP and BBEdit Lite).
@funcrunch @jwz I really enjoyed the FrontPage HTML editing days - of course not for how it would re-code pasted grammar or code sometimes, but just for some kind of quick instant WYSIWYG :)
Never heard of MacHTTP - but had heard of BBEdit Lite
