On Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:48:40 -0600, the infamous "Martin H. Eastburn"
scrawled the following:

Larry -

I was doing web designs on Sun 3 and Sun 4 boxes a long long time ago.
Internally before the WorldWideWeb was shortened to WWW and other names.

Cool!


Mosaic was the first 'Netscape' long before the other browsers and companies.

Yes, I used it as my first browser!


Tiff was one of the primary formats a number of others - now mostly obscure.

Was it used mostly in the medical and/or scientific fields, for x-ray
transfers, astronomy, and such? It never made it to the wider public
that I know of.


The web for me started in 1987 when I downloaded (via our FTP server)
from CERN the install files for Mosaic. Two of us were tasked to get a
division up and going. I did practical pages and collected graphics.

Ayup, you have 7-8 years on me there. I sure like what the Web has
turned into since then, don't you? Back then, it was a large step up
from the BBSes I hung out on, but look what it can do and provide
today. Amazing. I love it!


I still have and use TIFF / TIF format - my camera generates TIF and JPG
at the same time. And Jpg only.

My Nikon D-40 does RAW and JPG.


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You know, in about 40 years, we'll have literally thousands of
OLD LADIES running around with TATTOOS, and Rap Music will be
the Golden Oldies. Now that's SCARY! --Maxine