21 Things Anybody Under 16 Won't Believe About How We Used The Internet

Netscape

Forget Safari or Google Chrome – way back when it was Netscape that was the go-to internet browser. Originally released in 1994, Netscape almost completely disappeared by 2002 with the increased popularity of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. Nowadays, the old versions of Safari and Chrome look rather archaic, but at the time they were wonders to behold. With Netscape in particular, dial-up connections could begin to show the text of a web page almost immediately after entering a web address, which was a big deal that made using the web easier and more bearable for its earliest users.