1995: The Birth of JavaScript • @ricmac

｢ the plan in 1995 was that JavaScript would be the scripting language to create client-side programs that ran inside the #Netscape browser, while big brother Java would be used for developing more complex web components. Eich saw #JavaScript at the time as “a ‘glue language’ for the Web designers and part time programmers who were building Web content from components such as images, plugins, and #Java applets.” ｣

https://cybercultural.com/p/1995-the-birth-of-javascript/

i can't stop laughing at the thought of someone seeing #kiki's NCSA Mosaic/Netscape 1.x theme in 2025 and wondering if the entire world wide web was entirely grey in 1994.
(it was)

if this doesn't do violence to the idea of software preservation, i don't know what could

Got Seamonkey 2.49.2 (supports TLS 1.3) working on OS/2 Warp. Obligatory XPFE classic theme.
#seamonkey #netscape #retrocomputing #os2

My friend @vvzen wrote up a much more clever and sophisticated version of a #hack I did many years ago to alter the opening splash screen art of $7000 professional #VFX software, #houdinifx

It's a great read and explanation across #cpp , #docker #qt and our old friend #LD_PRELOAD. Nice to have some fun in the #vfxpipeline mines.

When I've got a second I'm going to recreate this setup for my original target, #FoundryNuke

https://valerioviperino.me/hacking-the-splash-screen-of-houdini/

Why we are still using 88x31 buttons

https://ultrasciencelabs.com/lab-notes/why-we-are-still-using-88x31-buttons

Hey #nerds, if you use #Publii and you're tired of the modern web, check out my 90's #Netscape inspired Publii #theme: https://github.com/wagesj45/publii-themes

I was reading a story today about #theoldnet and how if you leave an “&” symbol at the end of an #email , it means you want the recipient to reply back. Does anyone remember this or still do this today? I don’t recall that being a thing or maybe it was and I didn’t notice. Gonna tag below with adjacent words in hopes of response.

#aol #bbs #vintagecomputing #retro #retrotech @ActionRetro #dialup #486 #windows95 #prodigy #netscape #icq #compuserve #angelfire #geocities #irc

Oh, no! Ich wundere mich gerade, warum alles so schrecklich aussieht unter X11 und habe jetzt .Xresources entdeckt. Das lag da seit der Erfindung von Computern in meinem Home-Verzeichnis rum.

Weiß überhaupt noch jemand, was #Netscape ist? Und der #BLINK-Tag in #HTML?

Das braucht man ja heute nicht mehr, da macht man einfach 7.000 blinkende Gifs auf die Seite.

Today 30 years ago. Every week a few new websites appeared online and you could subscribe to a newsletter about them. #Netscape

Warum Spotlight beim Suchbegriff httpd.conf (ich suche eine alte Conf) ausgerechnet den Screenshot als möglichen Treffer anzeigt, kann auch nur Spotlight verstehen. #netscape

Since Web3 has been coopted by. . .well, fucking morons, I've decided to bump the version to #Web95.

Break out #Netscape, folks.

Remember "#groupware"?

According to #Netscape, that was basically email, calendar, address book, newsgroups, and a bespoke audio/video/chat client all bolted into a single app. https://muffin.industries/@wayback_exe/114178681504078070

Time to write some modern web applications. #webdev #browser #netscape

I remember reading a Wired cover article with Mark Andreeson where he told that at Netscape they have the "Netscape Finger Cheer", where you form an N with your fingers.

Man, the dotcom era was hilariously insane, ESPECIALLY in hindsight. Knowing what the man became, I guess we all now have a particular finger cheer too.

In 1994, the World Wide Web became the default multimedia channel of the Internet. With the launch of Netscape Navigator and early websites like Yahoo! and HotWired, the Web achieved lift-off. https://cybercultural.com/p/internet-1994/ #InternetHistory #Netscape