Time for a short history lesson for Michael... :-) In the beginning there was a text only message service that was called ARPANET which the government linked with universities to form an internet of communications in case of nuclear war. Dr. Cerf developed a way of putting images onto this network of computers and the World Wide Web was born.
To see these images, you needed a special piece of software called a browser. The first was a university development called MOSAIC and it was open source and free. From MOSAIC came NETSCAPE. Not to be pushed out of the browser wars, Mr. Bill and his friends at Redmond Washington decided THEY needed to own the browsers so they developed their own version of MOSAIC and called it Internet Explorer. Both NETSCAPE and IE went through many variations. Netscape was purchased by AOL but never utilized. The main code of NETSCAPE was still open source and developers decided to add to the code and called it MOZILLA. Because of all the different programmers in open source, NETSCAPE, MOZILLA and IE all became very large programs. A European company wrote a smaller code version of a browser and called it OPERA. It does all the other browsers do, with less code. MOZILLA has made their code smaller also, and now has released it as FIREFOX. Unfortunately, FIREFOX does not run on OS9 or below, only with OSX and Windoze. OSX also has it's own built in browser, SAFARI, which is quite good, but occasionally not recognized by some web pages (which I have personally found were designed with Microsoft Front Page and other MS products... Hmmmm). You can download OPERA from www.opera.com, FIREFOX from www.mozilla.org and NETSCAPE from www.netscape.com. Any questions? Ken Martin ================== Michael wrote: Wooooh, hold up a moment. If I gave the imprison I am a expert in any way when it comes to bits and pieces to do with computing I am sorry for that. I am not. I know what I do and have done, yet joining the group here is to learn more. Opera and firefox sound like a singer and a helicopter, yet I can guess they have something to do either hardware of software!??? They dedicated the Mac books to me..... for Dummy's! The situation here is that I have OSX on my blue and white all in one G3 not tower. However I can never be bothered to get out of Classic mode! However, After Yule I will be going over to OSX as Panther as my more souped up G3, that will come back a G4 , and all the 'modern' things most people have had for ages like DVD and a burner as a superdrive etc. I will then go to OSX on the G3 as well. Kind of forcing it as a decision! The StarMax 4000/200 gets retired from internet service and becomes a drawing machine, one only needs to draw so fast! Next I also have to contemplate connecting them all together. That is the two G3's one running as a G4, and the 'Max. This list will probably here form me next year then, ha! I have been with Macs since the classic came out, that wonder with a floppy. Out of all of the new computers we upgraded to in our business days the StarMax has been the most bullet proof machine I have. It seems hardly ever to complain whatever I torture it with. If It can not do it it just tells me to sod off! And yes I really am trying to find an exceptable alternative to ever having to use Microsofts Explorer. Opera or Firefox........... tell me more! All the best Michael ________________________________________________________________ Juno Gift Certificates Give the gift of Internet access this holiday season. http://www.juno.com/give -- StarMax is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... / Buy books, CDs, videos, and more from Amazon.com \ / <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect-home/lowendmac> \ Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> StarMax list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/starmax.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/starmax%40mail.maclaunch.com/> iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
