If you can publicly mirror these, please do! I know of a few mirrors so far:, ,, and moar.jp. (It is missing some key releases, such as Netscape 0.4 for Irix, which was the first release to ever leave the building and the "non-exportable"-crypto versions of almost all of them.) It's not complete, but it's all that I could find. My personal collection of old Netscape browsers is here: /archives/.When loading pages from a Netscape server, the caption next to the URL field in the browser would change from "Location" to "Netsite".Įnough about all that, I want to run some old browsers! through exist because the early browsers did client-side load-balancing: the browser itself had a special case where if it was loading "" it would actually pick a random number from 1 to 32 and instead load "home N."! Those were physically different servers in the Netscape data center.Unfortunately, that wasn't possible for political reasons explained below. and to see how long it took before someone Øwned it, since there must be someone out there who still remembers how to launch an assault on Irix 5.3. I had originally planned on re-hosting these web sites on an SGI Indy running Mosaic Netsite Commerce Server, just for maximal comedic value. Trivia Question #3: When was the tag implemented, and what was its origin? Trivia Question #2: Do you remember the behavioral difference the browsers exhibited when they were talking to a Netscape web server? Trivia Question #1: Do you remember why through exist? The web server also had to be configured to not send a "charset" parameter on the "Content-Type" header, because the old browsers didn't know what to make of that. Old web browsers didn't do that: if you wanted to host a dozen sites on a single server, that server had to have a dozen IP addresses, one for each site. This works because modern web browsers send a "Host" header saying which site they're actually looking for. In this modern world, a single server will typically host multiple web sites from a single IP address. In order to make these web sites work in the old browsers, it was necessary to host them specially. I think that by Oct 1994, both and were redirects to, but I can't remember any more. That's from just after the company was announced, but before the first browser beta was released. is now a snapshot of that web site from July 1994. is now a snapshot of that web site from 2. But now, if you fire up a copy of Mosaic Netscape 0.9, and click on the various toolbar buttons, they will work again! For example, in the old browsers, when you clicked on the "What's New" toolbar button, it went here. The old URLs that were baked into the toolbar buttons of the original web browsers didn't work any more. Until now, and all URLs under it just redirected to, then redirected a dozen more times before taking you to some AOL portal page.In honor of the ten year anniversary of the Mozilla project,, the Internet Web Site of the Mosaic Communications Corporation, is now back online.
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