Netscape 2.0

Ho hah! I got (win95) Netscape 2.02 nntp news reader to
work on my Inspiron 1200 under XP.

Some options don't work but maybe I can live with it.

I would have gotten 2.01 but the link was broken.
http://sillydog.org/narchive/full123.php


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On the internet, nobody knows you're a jerk.

Ron Hardin wrote:
Ho hah! I got (win95) Netscape 2.02 nntp news reader to
work on my Inspiron 1200 under XP.

Some options don't work but maybe I can live with it.

I would have gotten 2.01 but the link was broken.
http://sillydog.org/narchive/full123.php



What for? Thunderbird works just fine in XP.

Bob

"Ron Hardin" wrote in message
...
Ho hah! I got (win95) Netscape 2.02 nntp news reader to
work on my Inspiron 1200 under XP.

Some options don't work but maybe I can live with it.

I would have gotten 2.01 but the link was broken.
http://sillydog.org/narchive/full123.php



I seem to recall Netscape was actually my preferred browser up to version
4.4 (?) or the like.

I'm surprised you decided to run XP at all.

Luddite. g

On Jul 16, 8:58 am, Bob Levine wrote:
Ron Hardin wrote:
Ho hah! I got (win95) Netscape 2.02 nntp news reader to
work on my Inspiron 1200 under XP.

Some options don't work but maybe I can live with it.

I would have gotten 2.01 but the link was broken.
http://sillydog.org/narchive/full123.php

What for? Thunderbird works just fine in XP.

Bob

For that matter, so do more recent versions of Netscape.

Ron Hardin wrote:
Ho hah! I got (win95) Netscape 2.02 nntp news reader to
work on my Inspiron 1200 under XP.

Some options don't work but maybe I can live with it.

I would have gotten 2.01 but the link was broken.
http://sillydog.org/narchive/full123.php


Why not upgrade to 7.2. That's what i use, at least the mail and news
reader. I wish all the new browsers had the option of an integrated mail
and news reader like the older Netscapes..

Brad

Ron Hardin wrote:
Ho hah! I got (win95) Netscape 2.02 nntp news reader to
work on my Inspiron 1200 under XP.

Some options don't work but maybe I can live with it.

I would have gotten 2.01 but the link was broken.
http://sillydog.org/narchive/full123.php





It really did not start working right until Netscape gold v 3.0
but u want be able to get it.
Go he
http://browser.netscape.com/downloads/archive/

and get 4.79 or one of the latest up to version Netscape 7.2 Suite English.

Give the OP credit for an interesting and daring experiment... Ben Myers

On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 10:30:37 -0700, " wrote:

On Jul 16, 8:58 am, Bob Levine wrote:
Ron Hardin wrote:
Ho hah! I got (win95) Netscape 2.02 nntp news reader to
work on my Inspiron 1200 under XP.

Some options don't work but maybe I can live with it.

I would have gotten 2.01 but the link was broken.
http://sillydog.org/narchive/full123.php

What for? Thunderbird works just fine in XP.

Bob

For that matter, so do more recent versions of Netscape.

S.Lewis wrote:
I seem to recall Netscape was actually my preferred browser up to version
4.4 (?) or the like.

I'm surprised you decided to run XP at all.

I need to run my 24" monitor on the desktop, so my XP laptop will become my
new desktop, to get telnet window real estate improvements. Actually I'll use
SSH because telnet sucks on XP.

I like the very early 2.01 for news reading because I understand the file
structure, and it works for news, and of course because I've been using it
since 1996. The 2.01 browser is nearly useless even on the win95 machine
because half the sites crash it nowadays, either through an outright illegal op
or through going into memory swapping and growth mode, which it never recovers from.
But the news reader is great.

2.02 is all the site offered with working links, though.

On XP I use firefox for browsing, or IE7.0 if that doesn't work.

The only unresolved hangup in retiring the win95 machine is that I'd like to
be able to put the audio line-in audio onto the audio line-out jack. The mixer
on win95 has the line in input as one of the choices on the output mix, and XP
does not. I'm not sure how I'll replace that. Maybe a real actual physical
mixer next to the laptop, though that seems dumb.


--
Ron Hardin


On the internet, nobody knows you're a jerk.

On Jul 16, 2:27 pm, JDa™© wrote:
Ron Hardin wrote:
Ho hah! I got (win95) Netscape 2.02 nntp news reader to
work on my Inspiron 1200 under XP.

Some options don't work but maybe I can live with it.

I would have gotten 2.01 but the link was broken.
http://sillydog.org/narchive/full123.php

It really did not start working right until Netscape gold v 3.0
but u want be able to get it.
Go hehttp://browser.netscape.com/downloads/archive/

and get 4.79 or one of the latest up to version Netscape 7.2 Suite English.

Whatever you do, NOT Netscape 6.0, it's an abomination... It's why
Microsoft really won the browser wars (in that era).

4.7x was better than IE, and then they released the source code, and
version 5 never happened, and then 6 sucked. But we have Netscape to
thank for Firefox, and the other mozilla browsers that emerged.

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On Jul 16, 2:27 pm, JDaT© wrote:
Ron Hardin wrote:
Ho hah! I got (win95) Netscape 2.02 nntp news reader to
work on my Inspiron 1200 under XP.

Some options don't work but maybe I can live with it.

I would have gotten 2.01 but the link was broken.
http://sillydog.org/narchive/full123.php

It really did not start working right until Netscape gold v 3.0
but u want be able to get it.
Go hehttp://browser.netscape.com/downloads/archive/

and get 4.79 or one of the latest up to version Netscape 7.2 Suite
English.

Whatever you do, NOT Netscape 6.0, it's an abomination... It's why
Microsoft really won the browser wars (in that era).

4.7x was better than IE, and then they released the source code, and
version 5 never happened, and then 6 sucked. But we have Netscape to
thank for Firefox, and the other mozilla browsers that emerged.




Wasn't that (v6.0) about the time they were bought by AOL? It all seemed to
go downhill rather quickly after that.....