Netscape

I wonder why everything was just left behind?

Ahhhhh...when netscape was $90 a share and actually worked.

Hang on .. ninety bucks? And it worked? That must have been waaaaaaay back!

i'm showing my age a little, but around 1993, if you wanted onto the internet and didn't want to pay by-the-hour with the likes of AOL, you had to find an independant provider and the only real browser to use was Netscape Navigator, which was expensive and came on like 27 floppy disks. (ok, i kid, it was only 8 disks)

maybe it was actually a patient ESCAPE hand book.. ok... silly joke

Ah, the days of 386s...*sighs*

I use netscape every day and I would be lost without it... Remember that Mozilla and Netscape were the first web browsers, developed by Jim Clark and the Mozilla team.

Netscape works back then like how Firefox runs today...

loads most pages but you stil have to use internet destroyer!!

I remember my first, oh yea!! IBM 5650, dual 5 1/4 floppy drive, no HD, 512kb of ram(I actually think it was less)
Then a 286 came into my life which was able to use 1mb ram.
The Mosiac browser anyone???

Reminds me of an office building I ventured into a few years ago. The computers and phones were exactly where they were when the place closed up a couple years earlier. They had a filing cabinet full of floppy disks. I didn't think of taking any, but instead going for the paper files, and I got a full stack of inter-office memos which covered everything from personal phone calls to what kind of music should be played in the office. All very interesting.

And yes, I started with Netscape too. (LOL)

Mosiac user here, until Netscape basically forced me to use it. I don't know anyone that actually paid for it outside of some companies, and I guess the state..

I attended Nottingham University, which was still running Netscape on all its campus machines when I left in 2003... mind you, the computer room in our hall building contained half-a-dozen 486's, whose speed could be measured in decades....

These days I'm 'down wit the kids' - I have Firefox :-p

WOW! THIS INTERNET HISTORY IS AWESOME! IF I DID'NT HAVE MY PENT(HA! YOU THOUGHT I WAS GOING TO SAY PENTHOUSE)IUM 4, HYPER-THREADING, HIGH SPEED, ETC., ETC., I WOULD'NT HAVE A PC. LAPTOP. IF THAT PAINTS A BETTER PICTURE.

wtf this hospital is abandoned so wtf did the leaved back all this f* stuff? i wonder what they also left back... some furnitures, or some patients (those in restrain or seclusion *oops*), or... their own brain? nerds lol!

At the risk of sounding really old school, I remember the early days of the internet: writing custom scripts to open a modem connection, writing more scripts to dial a number, staying connected for two days solid to download the newest release of Slackware Linux, running Mosaic to see the hottest new thing on the net. Back when the net wasn't 75% porn! Wow, I miss those days...
ThrillKill: I don't run Windows, so I don't have this reliance on IE that everyone else has. I use Firefox 100% of the time, and never have a problem loading a site. Do you have any examples of ones that don't work?

Shoulda snarfed them boxes up and sold em on Ebay ;)

You could of sold them for alot. Those are rare if sealed up.

My name is Padre I am from Mexico.Cool site.Thanks.

god I remember when Netscape came on like 10 disks (the big ones not the little ones)

thank GOD times have changed!

When I was little (like 5 yrs old) my familly had a commadore 64. I used to play games like Ghost Busters and Donald Ducks Playground. We had hundreds of games but most would take a half hour or longer to load. Good times... Good times.....

Wow! A whole 5 hours free!! (fine print on the red sticker)

my high school still used netscape one some of the computers and i just graduated last year that tells you how far behind we were

Heh, Todd. Back when I was in elementary school, we used those Apples. You know, the ones where, if you didn't put a floppy into the drive before booting it up, it'd load up to notepad only. *sigh* Those were good times; trying to bribe the Computer Lab guy so I could play Oregon Trail. I graduated from high school two years ago, so it's not like I'm even remotely old, either.
Yeah, but my first browser at school was Netscape. At home, when we finally got a computer at home (gah, I was in fifth grade), we had AOL *barf*.

Yeah, that is really cool. Funny how they left them there, considering they probably were still good when they closed down that place.

ok now y was everything left ebhind..like y did they leave in the first place????????

Because like... they ran out of money... like... OMG and stuff...

Oh I've been down that road as well. Our first computer was a 286 running DOS 3.0 or 3.3 (can't remember exactly) with a 30mb 5.25" harddrive, 5.25" floppy disk and an external 3.5" floppy drive. We even had a printer to it so you could print your documents from MS Works version 2.0 I think it was. It also had a couple of games in it, like Space Invaders and such. My dad bought the computer from his job. The next one was a 386 some years later, it had Windows 3.1 and we even had internet on that one, with a 28.8K dial-up modem and Netscape that would take about 2 minutes only to start. This one also came from my dads job. Man those were some times hehe! We still have these computers and all their accessories in our possession. I graduated from high school this year so I was only a little kid when we used those computers. I learned how to start the 286, get into dos (there was like a little starting menu at first where you had to type a specific number to get into dos) and then type "space" (without the quotes) to make space invaders start before I could even read!

Ewww, no wonder they closed it down. Somone brought netscape in.

I can top ALL OF YOU! My first computer was a Tandy 1000, had no hard drive you had to swap out 5-1/2" floppy disks between the program and saving data if you wanted to. Then a 10mb hard drive came on the market and I remember the ads tells us that 10mb (megabyte) would be all that we would EVER need, we NEVER WOULD FILL IT UP! HA! Now, I have a 165 GIGABYTE hard drive and that's almost full! Then of course there were the mainframes. My first bank job (let me rephrase that) there was an entire room that was the computer. The floors were raised to provide cooling and boy was it cool in that room. Sliding doors, the whole works. Watch that old Kathryn Hepburn movie "Desk Set", and that's exactly how it was. Ahhh the good OLD days!! They weren't that long ago when you think about it!!

Oh and I forgot to mention the IBM 8 inch floppy disks of which I still have a few....

Ah Silva, Oregon Trail, I lived for those days. I graduated 5 years ago, and still remember the anticipation and excitement of Oregon Trail day in school

One Christmas in the early 70s stands out because my brother got an Atari game set with "Pong." We thought that was really something! We played it in the family room in the basement (freshly remodeled with dark wood panelling and shag carpet) on our parents' old black and white tv. Another aspect of the remodeling had been the purchase of the family's first color television. The first television I owned personally was a 10" black and white bought at a garage sale, for my first home outside the college dorm--a single rented room with shared bath down the hall.

The summer I moved there I took one summer session class. I selected it mainly because it was held in the afternoons in the computer building, one of the few campus buildings that had air conditioning back then. The mainframes took up an entire room. All printing was also done there, no matter where the computer you used was located on campus. You sent your file to the printer, then walked to the computer center, where there was a giant clock showing the "turnaround time"--how long it would take for your document to be printed after you sent it to the printer.

The first personal computer I used was a Tandy 1000. My husband got it via one of those "30-day free trial" offers. I used it to type his final project for his master's degree, then he returned it to the store because we had a new baby and couldn't afford to keep the computer.

Another present my brother got the same year as "Pong" was one of the first hand-held calculators. It was the size of a small notepad, did nothing other than add, subtract, multiply, and divide, and cost about $85.

How times have changed! I think about all the advances of technology I have seen in my life, but even those are nothing compared to what my grandmother saw. She was born in the days of the horse and buggy, when telephones, electricity, and indoor plumbing were novel luxuries. Airplanes, television, even radio were unheard of. When she died, we had been to the moon and back, had supersonic jets, satellite phones, nuclear power and weapons, organ transplants, 24-hour television and shopping, computers and the Internet...

I recognize that....I HAVE THE BOX??!?

my first computer was a commador 64.very slow,very old and i'm not even in my 20's yet.shows how old my familys computer are

Ah, Netscape. How you were ever so fast. (sarcasm)

We did not even have Internet in my elementary school. We had to use the good old encyclopedias, periodicals, and dictionaries to due research. I think it was going into the 7th grade that i first get to get online.

And, i graduated high school eight years ago.

Anyone remember saving stuff on Cassettes?!

Woah! I actually remember the office I worked in having that Netscape package back in the 90s. Win 3.1 was a real pile of ... well anyway.

Per Sara's question, indeed I do recall saving things to cassette tape back in the Rad 80s. Fortunately, tape technologies have come along way since those old days. :)

As far as (somewhat) old school research methods go in schools, does anyone remember Encarta?

I remember Encarta AND saving data on cassette tapes, then transmitting that data to some company that ran reports off it. Wow times sure have changed!

Taxpayer's money, not well spent. I love old books, records and old Software. Thanks Mr. Motts..

I remember back when I was in college we had to actually leave the dorm and walk to another building across campus to do research. I think the building was called...... um..... a library. lol Na, just kidding. We didn't walk to the library. We rode a horse.

Hey anyone remember programs on cassette tape?

Motts - you are wrong. There is a bunch of people my age who grew up with DOS and Windows 3.1 who would love to get old boxed software to digitally archive.

I spent quite some time making a working Win 3.1 "system" in Dosbox because I miss my first computer that much.