-- I.E. 5 and 6 hold the by far majority of browser usage with 19,804 and 16,323 unique visits respectivly.
-- Netscape's newest (7) pulls in 1,326 (most of those are probably me and a friend who both use netscape) :)
Now here's where it starts getting odd...
-- 853 people came using Netscape 4, which is pretty old (4.0 stopped support in 98, but 4.7x went until 2001) and didn't support CSS at all), but even more astounding then that is the fact that 498 came using netscape 3 and 15 came using netscape 2! We're talking an eight year old browser at this point!
-- AOL 4 accounted for 68 people and AOL 3 brought one lowly person by (how AOL didn't self-upgrade on those machines is freakishly beyond me).
-- 24 people came via WebTv 1 (oh, you poor, poor things - it's like being so close to the net and not getting any of the good stuff) and amazingly one person came by with I.E. 2! What the heck is with you people? Netscape and I.E. 2??
This astounds me. I was so intrigued in fact, that I went to Netscape's home page and discovered you can actually download archived versions of their browsers - including going back as far as Netscape 2! Wow. That's actually kinda neat. See, for me, I started on the web on Netscape 1 and 2, so I thought it'd be damn interesting to go back in time a bit and take a trip down memory lane (since apparently, some of the people who've come here have never left the past!). What must the modern web be like on an eight year old browser? Before even installing it, I know that frames, html 3, and the ability to handle javascript were introduced by Netscape in 2.0 and I remember the web being a complicated and pretty bland place (not to mention terribly slow on a then-blazing 2800 baud modem). I also found a terribly interesting (for those of you who are geeky and enjoy reading up on how things used to be) a really comprehensive guide to everything netscape 2.0. There's a great product timeline for netscape here. (And for that one person using I.E. 2 still, I didn't forget about you, here is your timeline).
Later on today, I think I'll take a trip down memory lane using my newly aquired netscape 2.0 and see how far we've really come. Luckily, as I am a bit outdated myself and still using Windows 98SE (though the by-far majority of those who come to my site at 22,602 unique visitors use it as well) I can still install it. (It needs a 9x base which I still have). I'll share some thoughts with it later on.
~ flowers bloom near Memory and Dream
at 4/8/2003 11:25:26 AM ~
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