NCSA Mosaic on GitHub

Hoff · on March 8, 2010

Far more nostalgic: NCSA Mosaic on OpenVMS running on a VAX, and that's feasible by running on the simh VAX emulator on your (Mac OS X, Linux, Windows) box.

http://vaxa.wvnet.edu/vmswww/vms_mosaic.html http://simh.trailing-edge.com/ http://www.openvmshobbyist.org/ http://www.decuserve.org/

Total cost of this nostalgia is US$30 for the OpenVMS VAX CD. Mosaic, simh and the OpenVMS Hobbyist licenses are free.

pasbesoin · on March 8, 2010

Maybe I just found Dad's bday present :-)

pufuwozu · on March 8, 2010

http://imgur.com/SW5Fi.png

Nostalgic!

tibbon · on March 8, 2010

This should come as a comfort to people who fear IE6 will never go away.

Mosaic at one point was used by a majority of web users and look now- no one cares about compatibility. People moved on and it is no longer in current use and no one would expect that your site should display properly in it.

jrockway · on March 8, 2010

Ah, C programs from the early nineties. I wonder which file has the most remotely-exploitable buffer overflows.

(The source code is good reading nonetheless. I love the PUBLIC macro to declare public "methods" in libwww2. A little C++ jealousy, I guess.)

jasongullickson · on March 8, 2010

This is cool. Does anyone know if the code for Tim Berners Lee's NeXT browser is out there anywhere?

jasongullickson · on March 8, 2010

Nevermind, found it: http://www.w3.org/History/1991-WWW-NeXT/Implementation/

kanwisher · on March 8, 2010

Awesome bit of objective-c, still looks rather readable then C code from the era. Its to bad C++ won out over Objective-C

sireat · on March 8, 2010

Nice, couldn't build it though on U9.10, at least x11-proto-print-dev does not exist there.

wooby · on March 9, 2010

Whoops, it's supposed to be x11proto-print-dev. I've updated the deps in the README, should build no problem on 9.10 now.