What’s on your mind?

[Clix Pix]

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Makes sense now. I do recall that OS X wasn’t an annual update thing until the 2010s; when iOS flourished even more with the advent of the iPad, iPod touch, and iPhone. 📱 Was Netscape created by Apple? I don’t think so. I didn’t go that far back with Apple when I was young, I was more into Nintendo games like Mario and Kirby. Back then, Apple used to host events in their stores during OS X releases, like the Night of the Panther! 🐆

An article in Wikipedia about Netscape is most interesting reading. Netscape was originally Mosaic Communications Corporation, established in 1994, by Jim Clark and Marc Andreessen. The browser was initially called Mosaic Netscape. Later it was renamed Netscape Navigator. Netscape's mascot was "Mozilla," a cartoon green lizard-like creature, but eventually he disappeared from Netscape's website. "Mozilla" was the code name for the program in the early days.

In 1999 America Online (AOL) acquired Netscape Communications. In 2003 Netscape was disbanded but the browser continued to be developed and released by AOL in 2004. The final version of Netscape Navigator was released in 2008. Mozilla.org, which became the independent Mozilla Foundation, was responsible for Netscape 7.2, which was actually based on Mozilla.

That name Mozilla is related to more than just that green lizard mascot. It sounds familiar, right? Think "Firefox."

 

[Doctor Q]

Anybody remember the Yum poster for the candy-colored fruit-flavored iMacs?

I got one of those posters, from somewhere, and put it up on the wall of the computer lab at school. I figured it was a nicely subliminal way to encourage students to favor Macs.

 

[Clix Pix]

Those yummy candy-colored iMacs and iBooks were a wonder to behold! I loved looking at the tangerine colored one. Alas, that was prior to my own conversion to the wonderful world of Apple and I never owned one. I remember being fascinated by one a friend had, but I guess I just wasn't quite ready yet for a Mac....

 

[NoBoMac]

Netscape was originally Mosaic Communications Corporation, established in 1994, by Jim Clark and Marc Andreessen.

And before that, NCSA Mosaic. My first browser, running on HP 9000/700 series hardware.

 

[Apple fanboy]

Anybody remember the Yum poster for the candy-colored fruit-flavored iMacs?

I got one of those posters, from somewhere, and put it up on the wall of the computer lab at school. I figured it was a nicely subliminal way to encourage students to favor Macs.

lol. The only computer I ever saw at school was a BBC Micro computer.

BBC Micro - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

They were awful. We had a Commadore Vic 20 at home.

VIC-20 - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

I was so lucky!

 

[bousozoku]

And before that, NCSA Mosaic. My first browser, running on HP 9000/700 series hardware.

I was using the Spyglass version, which didn't do images.

 

[Doctor Q]

The browser was initially called Mosaic Netscape.

I had a coworker who read the name wrong the first time and thereafter always called it Mosiac (mosey-ack).

 

[bousozoku]

C++ was one of the programming languages I learned before Java. It’s an older language, and I found it easy to learn how to build programs in C++ when I took it last fall semester. It’s also a foundational programming language that many computer science and engineering majors have to learn. By the way, it’s not too hard to learn.
...

When I started C, they didn't have a standard version of it, nor did Pascal. Modula-2 was a new language from Nicklas Wirth that was going to take over the world. C++ and Java came later.

I bet you've never used the emacs editor. That was the first full screen editor to make it big and used the LISP language for macros. Before I started, people had to use punch cards for their programming. Line numbers were essential to sort the cards in case you dropped them.

We take so much for granted now. Even AI can be used to check code, although editors in the 2000s were balancing braces and such.

Thankfully, my mind is on this. Yesterday, I got my semi-annual reminder about the year my mother and Steve Jobs died.

 

[mtbdudex]

^^^^
1982 programming FORTRAN on a text editor (typewriter), no screen, batch over night processing of code.
Then next day you could execute it, or fix it.
Print out every day, markup paper.
Edit on a typewriter in TED.
Yea, that’s the way it was.
Learned PL1 also.
From there it’s all flowcharts and logic really.
Syntax is syntax, could code in whatever.

You had to have it in your head.

 

[bousozoku]

^^^^
1982 programming FORTRAN on a text editor (typewriter), no screen, batch over night processing of code.
Then next day you could execute it, or fix it.
Print out every day, markup paper.
Edit on a typewriter in TED.
Yea, that’s the way it was.
Learned PL1 also.
From there it’s all flowcharts and logic really.
Syntax is syntax, could code in whatever.

You had to have it in your head.

I miss PL/I. It was so flexible and capable.

 

[DaveFromCampbelltown]

1975 - learnt Fortran, using punch cards. At least our machines printed the line number on the card, so if you dropped the stack you could easily put them back in order...

Later used Fortran F80 (Microsoft's Fortran, yes they did a Fortran), C, CBasic (written by Gordon Eubanks, later of Symantec fame, for his Navy thesis) Pascal and dabbled in Modula-2.

 

[DaveFromCampbelltown]

Ahh 25 years MacRumors .
Memory lane indeed.
20 years ago I was working with Apple on integrating their iPod and its 30pin connector into autos.
We did it on Nissan products first going thru a gateway device, I launched that in 2006.


Anyone here own a MacPortable back in 1989? I did.

Yea. That’s me 9/1984, I owed the very first Mac..

...

Never owned a Mac Portable, but did work on one for a customer.