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Where Are They Now?

Revisiting Dave Masters  rundown of the browsers of 19971.  You can still find the page here.

Amaya

W3C browser

http://www.w3.org/Amaya/

Still around, read a biased review

Ariadna 

 Russian browser

http://www.kd.qd.se/iii/amsd/Ariadna/ariadna.htm

Recently rediscovered at a new link.

Cello

Ran on your 386.

http://www.law.cornell.edu/cello/cellotop.html

Gone Last update 1994.  Has played its last tune, but can still be found here.  

Cyberjack

http://www.cyberjack.com/

Gone

Emissary

http://www.twg.com/

Gone, now a wine company URL

Galahad

http://www.mcs.com/~jvwater/main.html

Gone

GNUscape

Written entirely in Emacs-Lisp  

http://www.cs.indiana.edu/elisp/w3/docs.html

Available if you want it

Grail

Extensible

http://monty.cnri.reston.va.us/grail/

Gone , just like Monty Python

HotJava

Written in Java

http://java.sun.com/products/hotjava/index.html

Still ok

i-comm

http://www.best.com/~icomm/icomm/index.html

Gone

i-view Same url as i-comm?

Concept was to use this to distribute offline content.

Same url as i-comm?

Needless to say, Gone too. Found the true link, still gone.

InterGo

http://www.teachersoft.com/

Gone. This domain for sale

Internet Workhorse

http://orders.mkn.co.uk/system/horse

Gone

InternetWorks

http://www.booklink.com/

Gone

Lynx

My first browser

http://www.nyu.edu/pages/wsn/subir/lynx/
platforms.html

Gone

Microsoft Internet Explorer

IE has almost 95% of the current browser market.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/default.asp

Take a wild guess

Multilingual Mosaic

30 languages!

http://www.accentsoft.com/

Gone, not in the browser biz anymore

NaviPress

http://www.navisoft.com/

Gone

NCSA Mosaic

Another Mosaic, I used that early on too.

http://archive.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Software/
Mosaic/NCSAMosaicHome.html

Last release 1997

NetCruiser

I used to have this installed too.

http://www.netcom.com/netcom/netcrz.html

Gone

Netscape

http://wp.netscape.com/comprod/index.html

Loads a blank page, even though we know Netscape is still barely around.

Netshark

http://netshark.inter.net/netshark/

Gone

Notes Web Navigator

Could have been the Lotus Notes browser

http://www.lotus.com/comms/webnav.htm

Gone

Opera

Recently achieved 1% market share

http://traviata.nta.no/opera.htm

You can get there, but not from this link

PowerBrowser

From Oracle

http://www.oracle.com/

Gone, no oracles they. A search of the Oracle site finds a single reference to Power Browser in a 1997 document.  However can be found here.

Quarterdeck Mosaic

Was from the makers of Procomm®

http://www.qdeck.com/qdeck/products/QMosaic/

Gone, Symantec didn’t take this with it.

Secure NCSA Mosaic

http://www.commerce.net/software/SMosaic/

Gone

SlipKnot

http://www.interport.net/slipknot/slipknot.html

Gone, knot anymore

Softerm Plus

http://www.softronics.com /

Gone out of the browser business

SPRYNET Mosaic

http://www.spry.com/customer/tellme.html

Gone, now a web hosting service

Tango

http://www.alis.com/P_NET/P_MCP/
P_MCP.EN.HTML

Gone

TCP/Connect

http://www.intercon.com/

Gone, URL now belongs to Intercontinental Transportation

Tiber

http://www.vol.it/VOLB/browser.html

Gone

UdiWWW

http://www.uni-ulm.de/~richter/udiwww/index.htm

Gone

WinWeb

 Was a good name!

http://galaxy.tradewave.com/

Gone

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Email: raykelly@rakelly.com

Early on, I paid good money for this Windows based emulator to access the long gone text based Delphi Internet Service.

http://browsers.evolt.org - archive of all old browsers.