Opera and Firefox. The origins.

Today, I've received a new update for my dear Opera and I've wondered, how the old browsers were, so I've resorted to my resources to find out more information. I already knew a website with lots of old versions of many software programs, which I like to visit, so this time, I've got the perfect excuse to download old software and try it.

I've really had  problems to install most of browsers I wanted to try, in such a way that I've got to make work two of them.

Opera


This has been my first thought. The oldest version I've been able to find has been the 3.00. Here is a snapshot.

As you can see, the content has been loaded perfectly. This version was released on December 01, 1997, when Opera programmers had no idea about flash, so that I haven't been able to log in Twitter, Youtube or similar, although the load progress in all websites has been instantaneous.
By the way, this was a paid version.


Mozilla Firefox


Mozilla Foundation started to work rather later than Opera, so it stands out in their first browsers compared with Opera's first ones. The version I've tried has been the 0.6. This was a freeware version released on June 12, 2000. Here is a snapshot:

The skin is a bit better and the load of the websites is much better, but BUT BUT BUT BUT!!! IT'S CRASHED 3 TIMES BEFORE I COULD SEE THE BLOG!!! This version was freeware because no one wanted to paid for it! Sure.


Anyway, now we live in different times, and they both have evolved very much.


PS: Use Opera and you'll be happy.

The craze for blogs

The craze for blogs has came to Internet! I think so. Long time ago, I started to realise, people, like me, or maybe, better writers, discovered Blogger. They decided to open accounts and progressively fill them with letters and phrases talking about their lives (usually not very well), what they think about the world and whatever teenagers used to think...

I don't know why this happened, and certainly I don't think they opened their blogs just for relaxing writing, for reflecting or to keep a place in the Internet for talking about them. Maybe, new blogs were created for the love for typing, to get visitors, or just for creating a blog, for now it's free!

Anyway, why teens create blogs? and by the way, why teens read blogs? What are you/we doing? Facebook is waiting for us.

Music for Sunday night #42

This Sunday, we'll listen to a song from the last album of Mägo de Oz. I don't really like this album because it's been made with songs not included in previous albums for various reasons, so the setlist is a bit poor and there are several boring songs, however there are also a couple of them very good, like this. Enjoy.

Gods

You know about who I am speaking. Yeah, Chad amazed me yesterday. I was watching a video of "Otherside" when, in the end of the video, he played a great solo inside the song, I was shocked! Please, watch it and listen to it with your own eyes and ears:

The solo is in the end, if you want to go just to the solo please go to 8:10. But it's better to enjoy the full video.

Floppy music

As a good musician and technology lover, I love these projects! If I am right, I posted about this once, well, now, here is the second part.

Do you remember old floppy disks and readers? Geek people use them to make music. I've listened to several songs played by this way, but I've got to affirm that this is the most complex song I've never listened from floppy readers. Amazing!

Drumstick Pencils

Yesterday, a friend of mine showed me this:

Cool! isn't it?

I really wouldn't mind to receive this present for my birthday, dear reader, I'd be a great little gift.

You can buy it for some dollars here:

http://www.thinkgeek.com/homeoffice/supplies/b866/

Music for Sunday night #41

Tonight we'll listen to this funny song which I discovered while I was watching The Simpsons. Enjoy: