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Technology Stocks : MSFT Internet Explorer vs. NSCP Navigator -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (20684)	8/16/1998 11:31:00 PM
From: Charles Hughes	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

>>>Well, of course it was Bill. NSCA Mosaic, the original code base for IE, and the original graphical browser. You just have to explain how it became a Microsoft "innovation".<<< You know, I think the Web part of the Internet was invented at a particular time and spearheaded by a particular person, Timothy Berners-Lee. There was a small group of people who came up with SGML and HTML and that also happened at a particular time. There is a chronology available, at CERN or through the W3. Then again at that time this was just for browsing hypertext, kind of a egghead thing for documents, and was around the very early 90's. It took a little while for incremental little things like plugins and threads and JavaScript and video and midi and so on to come along and make the browser into something that was fast enough and had features enough, that a goal like "make the browser the interface for the whole OS" wouldn't have set you to rolling on the floor hooting with laughter. In 1993 a Sun Sparcstation could run Mosaic just fast enough that you would get a page on the screen in about the time you could get coffee and come back. For MSFT to have planned to make this the interface to the OS, integrated yet, at that point, would have taken vision not known to mortal men and women. Of course, an alien life form... Nah. Yet, obviously, they did that, because they surely would not mislead us in regard to something so crucial to a legal case, in this our hallowed democracy. Not a respected corporation like MSFT! Cheers, Chaz P.S. I agree they may have wanted to make Windows the gate to the Internet. Leveraging that good old proprietary lock and all that. Charging us for the formerly free, which of course many others want to do as well, now that we finished paying for the Internet basic R&D with our tax dollars.