Everyday I am one of the luckiest people in
the Kootenays, I get to travel back in time to the 90s and talk about all of
the things that made my childhood. My family did not have a computer until I
was in the sixth grade. I learned the basis of everything I know about
computing at my elementary school. Every classroom had one computer that was
equipped with Windows 95, all of the others were DOS systems and for pure
educational purposes. The one computer in the classroom that was Neopets
friendly taught me everything I needed to know to be the computer whiz in my
family when we bought our first computer in the year 2000.
I'm not sure if we waited until 2000 to buy
a computer because my parents did not want to have to worry about anything
other than the VCR during the Y2K scare or if they simply wanted to regain the
weekend afternoons they had been spending researching elementary school
projects at our library. Regardless, we bought my aunt’s computer from her and
entered the tech age. I spent a lot of time between the never-ending search for
Carmen Sandiego and tying up my parent’s phone lines on Netscape
Navigator.
Happy Birthday Netscape Navigator 3.0! On
this day, back in 1996 you were released. The initial Netscape Navigator was
released in 1994; AOL made the final version of Netscape Navigator in 2007
(taking me all the way through to the end of high school) and stopped updating
it in 2008. Contemporary Netscape Navigator is an internet portal, similar
to the search engines it used back in the day like AltaVista.
