Fought in the Browser Wars
Well, they’re here; the browsers of the future. Mozilla and Microsoft looked deep inside innovation, and came up with almost exactly what Chrome has been doing for over a year now. That’s not to say that some innovation didn’t occur. The version number did increase.
I probably shouldn’t be so harsh. IE9 is actually a pretty good browser, which surprised everyone who remembers other atrocities. IE9 holds up well to the ACID test, and may be the fastest browser on the market for JavaScript performance. At least, for the next 5 minutes or so. But it`s nice to see such competition. I wish Canadian ISPs had such a war. Too bad the CRTC is too corrupt to ever allow that to happen.
Bear with me now, I’m going to reminisce: I remember the early days of the internet. I used Lynx and later on, Netscape Navigator. Loading a simple webpage filled with animated gifs and moving text took upwards of 5 minutes, but it was still the glory days; 4chan didn’t exist, trolls were something that lived under a bridge, and spam was completely unheard of, except as a delicious meat. I remember some of the early TV shows talking about this new fad called the ‘internet’, and they’d teach you how to click on hyperlinks, and while the linked page was taking its sweet time to load, they’d try to fill the silent gap with awkward conversation. I’m not really sure why I watched those shows.
Where is ICQ and your friends who were always online? Where is the dial-up connection that made the sound of Angels crying while connecting? They have passed like Leeroy Jenkins in Blackrock Depths. The days have gone, behind YouTube and impatience. How did it come to this?
This is amazing.
I actually found out that I had a friend who actually uses the AOL program to browse the web. And… I had a conversation JUST like this one…
Did you here that Chrome 11 will have speech to text? Beta’s out now…
while google’s speech to text is awesome, i’m not really sure how great that is on a desktop computer, with a keyboard..
Hahaha! The Glory Days!! Oh man! I miss Netscape! Who could ever forget the “oh oh” from ICQ! I never once wanted to remove the sound effects from that program! Sigh.
Love this week’s comic! Thank you for hitting it out of the ballpark again for us sentimentals!
i love sams facebook page and profile pic in panel 2.
The internet was pure back then. Tons of ISPs offering the whole range of services, and nobody had an issue with unlimited packages. If they can provide, and you pay for it, it’s fair game. We gotta take it back to the good days when we didn’t have to deal with such nonsense as throttling (no WoW for Rogers customers) and bandwidth caps (screw you Bell).