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1. mturk+bj[view] [source] 2024-06-28 22:57:09
>>kjhugh+(OP)
I've worked at NCSA (to one extent or another) for about a decade. It's pretty remarkable to hear (from people who both pre-dated and post-dated the browser work) about the suite of tools being developed around that time. Many had a deep focus on collaboration, but none took off quite as much as Mosaic. A few are harder to find out about -- like the XCMD extension to HyperCard that added support for animations right off the Cray, or Contours, or PalEdit, or Montage for collaborative environments -- and others, like Habanero a few years later ( https://www.hpcwire.com/1999/04/16/ncsa-habanero-hot-java-ba... ) left comparatively bigger footprints.
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2. detour+7t[view] [source] 2024-06-29 00:28:16
>>mturk+bj
I was installing ISDN lines in NYC I had various hypercard stacks for doing networking testing. There was a thriving Mac shareware market and HyperCard stacks were one of things I would download with gopher. The internet was full of strange repositories of software tools. I think the term at that time for impossibly connected systems was "toaster net".
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