Web Browsers From 90′s.

Web Browsers From 90′s.

Twenty years ago this month (December) , Tim Berners-Lee created and tested the very first Web browser, WorldWideWeb. To commemorate this anniversary, let’s take a look back through the main Web browser launched from 1990 to 2008 .

WorldWideWeb (1990)

This is the world’s first Web browser. The earliest versions ran only on NeXTSTEP

ViolaWWW (1992)

 ViolaWWW was the first Web browser for the Unix-based X Windowing System. 

Cello (1993)

 Cello was the first Web browser for Microsoft Windows (version 3.1, in fact). 

Lynx 2.0 (1993)

 CERN created the world’s second Web browser–the text-only “Line Mode Browser”–in 1990 so that the Web would be accessible across all platforms via Telnet. 

NCSA Mosaic 1.0 (1993)

 NCSA Mosaic brought the WWW to the general public’s attention, thanks to its ease of use, its presence on Windows and Macintosh platforms (Unix XWindows version shown here), and its ability to display images inline with text. 

IBM WebExplorer (1994)

 IBM broke into the Web browser field relatively early with the Mosaic-based WebExplorer, designed for the company’s OS/2 Warp 3 operating system. Critics hailed IBM’s browser. 

Netscape Navigator 1.0 (1994)

 After finding success with Mosaic, that browser’s creators left NCSA to form Netscape Communications, which developed Netscape Navigator 1.0.

Microsoft Internet Explorer 1.0 (1995)

 Seeing Netscape’s success, Microsoft decided to jump into the browser business.

Netscape Navigator 3.0 (1996)

 Here’s Netscape at the height of its popularity and influence–the period just before Internet Explorer stole the wind from its sails.

Opera 2.0 (1996)

 Norwegian company Opera Software released the first public version of Opera browser, version 2.0, for Windows in 1996.

KDE Konqueror (2000)

 Konqueror, both a Web browser and a file manager, debuted with the KDE 2 desktop environment for Unix-like systems in 2000. Its open-source rendering engine, KHTML, later became the basis for Apple’s Safari Web browser.

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5 for Mac (2001)

 With the coming of the Mac OS X operating system, Apple needed a new Web browser.

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 (2001)

 The era of IE 6 marked the height of Microsoft’s browser dominance–as well as the height of its sloth and sloppiness in browser design.

Netscape 7 (2002)

 Facing dwindling market share, Netscape released much of its code as open source in 1998.

Mozilla Phoenix 0.1 (2002)

 From the ashes of the bloated Netscape and Mozilla Communications suites rose the lean and mean Mozilla Phoenix project.

Apple Safari Public Beta (2003)

 Internet Explorer 5 for Mac–the Mac OS’s default browser up to 2003–was a buggy, slow embarrassment compared with learner alternatives arriving at the time.

Mozilla Firefox 1.0 (2004)

 After enjoying years of popularity in its beta incarnations, Mozilla’s Firefox Web browser finally released as version 1.0 to great fanfare and impressive download numbers in 2004.

Google Chrome Beta (2008)

 As if Google didn’t control enough of the Web already, in 2008 the search behemoth decided to release its own Web browser.

Which Web Browser From 90′s,  you like most to use?

Top 10 Products Created By Mcdonalds That Did Not Do Well

Top 10 Products Created By Mcdonalds That Did Not Do Well

Every company tries to diversify either to keep up with the competition or simply to survive. McDonalds did it too but unfortunately, some of their products did not do too well.

1. McGratin Croquette

This was a burger created by McDonalds especially for Japan. It contained mashed potatoes, Macaroni that had been fried silly and shrimp and all of it was served on cabbage. The name was unappetizing enough and it tasted quite odd.

2. Hulaburger

This burger was introduced in 1963 and their target customers were those Roman Catholics who did not eat non-vegetarian food on Fridays. Therefore, the company inserted a thin slice of pineapple between the bread instead of the meat. Needless to say, it was quite a failure.

3. McDLT

McDLT was quite a marvel during its time. The company sold it in a two-sided container- while the bottom part include the bottom half of the bread and the meat, the top part consisted of the other half as well as the tomato, pickles, lettuce, cheese and sauces. Those who were curious enough to buy it had to assemble it all together before eating it. You know what they should’ve done? Walked over to the nearest dumpster and binned it.

4. Arch Deluxe

This burger was meant for adults and the advertisements that were made to promote it showed children turning up their noses and walking past it. Ronald was also shown playing pool and golf- so-called adult sports. The burger was okay but not good enough to help the company earn profits.

5. McLobster

The name says it all. The company took some lobster bits, added tomato and lettuce and mixed it all up with some sauces. Let’s just say that it was not an attractive burger to look at. It wasn’t big enough to satiate the consumer who had to pay 5.99 dollars for it.

6. McHotdog

The McHotdog looked good and tasted okay but it never really did well with the consumers. According to Ray Kroc, they are unhygienic and unhealthy. Yes, because cheeseburgers are meant to be wholesome and nourishing, right?

7. McPizza

The pizza they created was bland and tasted like cardboard. Outlets all over the country ended up wasting money on ovens and on the construction of larger windows. Apart from the taste, it failed because when people thought of McDonalds, they thought of burgers and not pizzas.

8. McPasta

When the pizza was added to the menu, so was the McPasta. This included spaghetti, roasted chicken, lasagna and fettuccine alfredo. Just like the McPizza, people did not want to eat pasta at McDonalds- they continued to go to their favorite Italian joints if they craved spaghetti or lasagna.

9. McAfrica

The McAfrica was released when the people in Africa were suffering facing the aftermaths of a famine and trying to ward off starvation. Even though it tasted good, the advertising campaign was formulated at the worst possible time which is why the burger failed.

10. McLean Deluxe

The advertisement for the McLean Deluxe informed the viewers that even though it was low in fat, it tasted really good. Unfortunately, it did not- mainly because water was mixed with seaweed to replace the meat. It was repulsive and was removed from the menu within a few months.

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Slap The Nerd Fight Game

Slap The Nerd play information

As a respectfull teacher its your duty to control the annoying nerds in the classroom. Try to hit them as soon as they are trying to give the correct answers.

Slap The Nerd controls

The game is using the mouse to aim, simply move the mouse hand and click on the button to slap the guy in front of the cursor.

What if the world stopped turning tomorrow?

Granted it is a pretty far-fetched idea but that hasn’t stopped some pretty big brains from trying to figure out just what would happen is such an event did happen.

Under the title of If The Earth Stood Still – Modeling the absence of centrifugal force the folks at ESRI used some pretty fancy modeling to find out the answer to that exact question.

If earth ceased rotating about its axis but continued revolving around the sun and its axis of rotation maintained the same inclination, the length of a year would remain the same, but a day would last as long as a year. In this fictitious scenario, the sequential disappearance of centrifugal force would cause a catastrophic change in climate and disastrous geologic adjustments (expressed as devastating earthquakes) to the transforming equipotential gravitational state.

The lack of the centrifugal effect would result in the gravity of the earth being the only significant force controlling the extent of the oceans. Prominent celestial bodies such as the moon and sun would also play a role, but because of their distance from the earth, their impact on the extent of global oceans would be negligible.

If the earth’s gravity alone was responsible for creating a new geography, the huge bulge of oceanic water—which is now about 8 km high at the equator—would migrate to where a stationary earth’s gravity would be the strongest. This bulge is attributed to the centrifugal effect of earth’s spinning with a linear speed of 1,667 km/hour at the equator. The existing equatorial water bulge also inflates the ellipsoidal shape of the globe itself.

Did you knew, What if the world stopped turning tomorrow?