Lazycoder

Browsing the web under WFW 3.11

Coding Horror: Revenge of Codename: Snowball: “I never browsed the intarweb through any version of Windows 3.x. Most people are surprised to find that there was a Windows 3.x version of circa-1999 Internet Explorer 5.”

Ah, I remember browsing over a SLIP connection using Mosaic and later Netscape with a big, purple “N” in the upper right hand corner instead of the starscape. I’m not sure which version of Netscape that was? 2.1 I think. At the time, I was running Windows for Workgroups 3.11. Later, my roommate and I dual booted OS/2 2.1 and WFW 3.11. I remember our elation at being able to network the two computers together using coax cable and Lantastic. We were excited because we had two phone lines, so we could call the other one on one line, load up Doom, and use phones to keep in touch during a co-op game.

Good times.