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Browsers
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The software that opened the World Wide Web to everyone. From NCSA Mosaic in 1993 to the browser wars between Netscape and Internet Explorer, these pr...
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Audio
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Before Spotify, before iTunes, there was Winamp. And RealPlayer. And a thousand other ways to listen to music on your computer. The late 90s were the ...
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Video
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Streaming video in the dial-up era was an act of faith. Postage-stamp-sized windows, constant buffering, and codec nightmares. But RealVideo, QuickTim...
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Gaming
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The golden age of PC gaming. Shareware, demo disks, and "just one more level" at 2 AM. From id Software's revolutionary FPS titles to Sierra's adventu...
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Apps
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The utilities and tools that made your computer actually useful. File managers, compression tools, text editors, anti-virus software, system tweakers,...
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Office
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Word processors, spreadsheets, databases, and the software that ran businesses. Before Google Docs and Office 365, there was a fierce battle between W...
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Comms
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IRC, ICQ, AIM, mIRC, and the chat tools that built online communities before social media existed. "A/S/L?" was the universal greeting, away messages ...
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NCSA Mosaic
(1993)
- Browsers
The browser that started it all. NCSA Mosaic was the first web browser to display images inline with...
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Netscape Navigator
(1994)
- Browsers
Born from the ashes of NCSA Mosaic, Netscape Navigator defined the early commercial web. Created by ...
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Internet Explorer
(1995)
- Browsers
Microsoft's weapon in the browser wars. Licensed from Spyglass Mosaic and bundled free with Windows,...
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Opera
(1995)
- Browsers
The scrappy underdog from Norway. Opera pioneered tabbed browsing, mouse gestures, speed dial, and p...
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Mozilla Firefox
(2004)
- Browsers
Rising from the open-sourced Netscape codebase, Firefox (originally Phoenix, then Firebird) reignite...
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Safari
(2003)
- Browsers
Apple's WebKit-based browser, built on the KHTML engine from KDE's Konqueror. Safari brought standar...
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