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Author:  pcernie [ Sat Jun 29, 2013 11:16 am ]
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Author:  Amnesia10 [ Sat Jun 29, 2013 12:16 pm ]
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Altavista was the first search engine that I used. Pretty good for a while.
Author:  cloaked_wolf [ Sat Jun 29, 2013 5:47 pm ]
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I remember altavista and its warez version called astlavista or something similar. I thought it was better than yahoo. For some reason, I hated the yahoo search but loved the yahoo stuff like games - loved playing online pool; and yahoo chat - my first chat room. Still recall chatting to an Australian girl who asked me "a/s/l" and I had no clue. She was rather attractive though. But this was back in a time when we had internet cafes and that's how I surfed.
Author:  timark_uk [ Sat Jun 29, 2013 6:23 pm ]
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Amnesia10 wrote:
Altavista was the first search engine that I used. Pretty good for a while.
AltaVista and HotBot.com
Blimey, talking back in '96 now.

Mark
Author:  Amnesia10 [ Sat Jun 29, 2013 7:45 pm ]
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timark_uk wrote:
Amnesia10 wrote:
Altavista was the first search engine that I used. Pretty good for a while.
AltaVista and HotBot.com
Blimey, talking back in '96 now.

Mark

Yes and I was switched from Mosaic to Netscape at the same time.
Author:  timark_uk [ Sat Jun 29, 2013 7:57 pm ]
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Amnesia10 wrote:
timark_uk wrote:
Amnesia10 wrote:
Altavista was the first search engine that I used. Pretty good for a while.
AltaVista and HotBot.com
Blimey, talking back in '96 now.
Yes and I was switched from Mosaic to Netscape at the same time.
Ahh, Netscape Navigator.

Mark
Author:  Amnesia10 [ Sat Jun 29, 2013 8:08 pm ]
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timark_uk wrote:
Amnesia10 wrote:
Yes and I was switched from Mosaic to Netscape at the same time.
Ahh, Netscape Navigator.

Mark

I was using Netscape Communicator as it was good at email.
Author:  timark_uk [ Sat Jun 29, 2013 8:13 pm ]
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Amnesia10 wrote:
timark_uk wrote:
Amnesia10 wrote:
Yes and I was switched from Mosaic to Netscape at the same time.
Ahh, Netscape Navigator.
I was using Netscape Communicator as it was good at email.
We had internal e-mail at that time.
Trying for the life of me to recall what it was ... it'll come to me.

Mark
Author:  Amnesia10 [ Sat Jun 29, 2013 9:39 pm ]
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timark_uk wrote:
We had internal e-mail at that time.
Trying for the life of me to recall what it was ... it'll come to me.

Mark

Was it a forerunner of Outlook? or Outlook itself?
Author:  timark_uk [ Sat Jun 29, 2013 10:02 pm ]
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Amnesia10 wrote:
timark_uk wrote:
We had internal e-mail at that time.
Trying for the life of me to recall what it was ... it'll come to me.
Was it a forerunner of Outlook? or Outlook itself?
It certainly wasn't Outlook.
It was a standalone application similar to Squirrelmail but not actually Squirrelmail.
This is gonna drive me mad now. *laugh*

Mark
Author:  Amnesia10 [ Sun Jun 30, 2013 12:55 am ]
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timark_uk wrote:
Amnesia10 wrote:
timark_uk wrote:
We had internal e-mail at that time.
Trying for the life of me to recall what it was ... it'll come to me.
Was it a forerunner of Outlook? or Outlook itself?
It certainly wasn't Outlook.
It was a standalone application similar to Squirrelmail but not actually Squirrelmail.
This is gonna drive me mad now. *laugh*

Mark

I never heard of that program. Outlook was out around mid 90's which might have been used in some places. Though prior to Windows's there were loads of alternatives. It was almost a golden age for software startups. I used DR-Dos and memory managers. The numbers of times you could restart your machine to optimise that first 640kb of memory.


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Author:  John_Vella [ Sun Jun 30, 2013 8:45 am ]
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timark_uk wrote:
Amnesia10 wrote:
timark_uk wrote:
We had internal e-mail at that time.
Trying for the life of me to recall what it was ... it'll come to me.
Was it a forerunner of Outlook? or Outlook itself?
It certainly wasn't Outlook.
It was a standalone application similar to Squirrelmail but not actually Squirrelmail.
This is gonna drive me mad now. *laugh*

Mark

It wasn't Pegasus Mail, also known as Pmail, was it? That was quite popular at the time and also the first email client I used at work. There was a DOS and Windows version available and I seem to recall it was quite good.

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Author:  jonbwfc [ Sun Jun 30, 2013 3:22 pm ]
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John_Vella wrote:
It wasn't Pegasus Mail, also known as Pmail, was it? That was quite popular at the time and also the first email client I used at work. There was a DOS and Windows version available and I seem to recall it was quite good.

Still going. The bloke who used to develop it gave up a few years ago I think but it carries on as an open source (ish) client. There was also Eudora, which I think died a few years back. The market for 'full fat' email clients that aren't Outlook rather collapsed as webmail clients have improved in functionality. The next gen of webmail stuff (OWA 2013 and Gmail's next revamp) are ruddy scarey. In a HTML5 browser, OWA 2013 is actually more functional than Outlook 2013.
Author:  timark_uk [ Sun Jun 30, 2013 5:03 pm ]
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John_Vella wrote:
It wasn't Pegasus Mail, also known as Pmail, was it? That was quite popular at the time and also the first email client I used at work. There was a DOS and Windows version available and I seem to recall it was quite good.
It bloody was, yes!
Last night I kept thinking unicorn, but just knew it wasn't that.
Ta muchly, John. (8+D

Mark
Author:  John_Vella [ Sun Jun 30, 2013 6:49 pm ]
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timark_uk wrote:
John_Vella wrote:
It wasn't Pegasus Mail, also known as Pmail, was it? That was quite popular at the time and also the first email client I used at work. There was a DOS and Windows version available and I seem to recall it was quite good.
It bloody was, yes!
Last night I kept thinking unicorn, but just knew it wasn't that.
Ta muchly, John. (8+D

Mark

Always happy to help! :D

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