Netscape (was Re: PayPal = payola?)

From: Lawrence Walker <lgwalker_at_mts.net>
Date: Sat Jan 26 23:45:58 2002

 I still have ICOMM on floppy. I believe that a freenet in Nova Scotia still uses
it, also possibly the Carlton freenet in Ottawa. Haven't checked them out in a
couple of years so I can't swear by it. To me, compared to Lynx, it was a
Cadillac.

Lawrence

> What the ICOMM software did was to provide a means for providing local
> graphical presentation for data acquired from the host, not running PPP, but
> running the shell. You told ICOMM what you wanted and it figured out what to
> tell your shell interface to do, then it took the data that was returned to you
> and presented it graphically. There weren't many fancy graphic sites back then,
> so it wasn't really much better than LYNX, but it did format the stuff so you
> thought that you had a graphical interface, though it wasn't a real GUI.
>
> It showed the user what could be done, though there wasn't much other than
> text to surf on the web, back then, and the WWW had not been "commercialized"
> yet, since the gov hadn't yet given its OK for commercial web use.
>
> Dick
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tothwolf" <tothwolf_at_concentric.net>
> To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
> Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2002 12:54 PM
> Subject: Re: Netscape (was Re: PayPal = payola?)
>
>
> > On Sat, 26 Jan 2002, Richard Erlacher wrote:
> > > On Sat, 25 Jan 2002, Tothwolf wrote:
> > >
> ><snip>
> > > The ICOMM software went a long way if you had only shell access,
> > > though. I provided the appearance of a graphical browser, though it
> > > did that by using shell-accessible features at the ISP, though it ran
> > > the graphical stuff locally, thereby giving the appearance of a
> > > graphical browser. It didn't need a WINSOCK, since it ran the IP
> > > stack at the ISP end.
> >
> > I never used the ICOMM software you describe. The first TCP/IP I had
> > access to at home was slip. I used a unix program called slirp with
> > trumpet for quite awhile before I moved to a standard slip/ppp connection.
> >
> > -Toth
> >
> >
>



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