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Maybe I'm just old, but from the perspective of the current day, I'd call the early web period 1990-1995. Or possibly 1990-2000.

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1990-95 is pre-Netscape -- that's kind of pre-history.

(I too am old enough to remember the internet before the web. You really had to work hard to goof off at work when all you had was nntp, archie and gopher.)

What, you didn't use mosaic? I used mosaic, on VMS no less.

I did too, on SunOS. I remember the early days when renavigating to a page would just pull up the cache version and not refresh automatically -- I didn't understand why wsj.com wasn't publishing new content daily.

And I still miss the spinning globe.

I used Internet Explorer on SunOS for testing Applets on Windows and Unix.

> You really had to work hard to goof off at work when all you had was nntp, archie and gopher.

Nonsense, I could goof off quite easily with nntp :)

2000-2005 is the early "dynamic html" period. Or at least that's what I put on my resume at the time.

Actually DHTML goes back to 1997 (with Netscape Navigator 4 and Internet Explorer 4).

I just had a pang of nostalgia after I checked and saw that Dynamic Drive is still online :)

Dynamic Drive was how I learned Javascript back in the day! Pulling apart how the author of a script had written it, to see how to get the snowflakes drifting down my page become leaves instead ;)

Not maybe, but yes.

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