--- In Nikon-D70%40yahoogroups.com">Nikon-D70
yahoogroups.com, Paka <ptilopteri...> wrote:
> [...]
> I was being facetious :^) but you would be supprised at the number
> of individuals who do not understand that. ie: A friend recently
> moved and had to go with a different isp. When he had the cable ready
> to attach to the computer (would not allow the router to be inline),
> he asked for my friend to open windows, which he did not have. The
> tech said that he could not complete the installation, he needed
> access to a *windows* browser. I told him that a browser was a
> browser and the operating system did not make a difference. After a
> short period of denial, he tried the linux browser, konqueror, and was
> able to complete his installation w/o a problem. I gave him a
> "live-dvd" of Knoppix to try. :^)
Heh! 
I still have a copy (source and executable) of the *first* browser,
Mosaic, from March 1993, when the Web began; I was one of the first
people on the Web. That Mosaic still works, though there are many
sites (no thanks to MS' Frontpage garbage) that are not properly
viewable. As an aside, people today tout Amazon, but the first ecom
site on the Web was (simply) "www.internet.com" -- I bought several
19.2K modems and some other stuff from them (based on Deer Creek Rd.
in Palo Alto CA) w-a-y back then. My, how time flies.
Oh oh, I think we're getting off-topic, so we better curtail this.
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