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by mftb
1712 days ago
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What was Apple's market share of desktops at the time? And whether you were talking people through a Trumpet WinsSock install or I was doing it in person, it wasn't going to get done that way, just too slow. Sure lots of physical infrastructure (modems etc...) had to be added, no disagreement there. Anyway, it's all a long time ago now. A funny aside, thinking of Apple in those days reminded me of "Cyberdog" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberdog. I wonder if anybody has done a side-by-side of Cyberdog vs Safari. Things change. |
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I don't know, but probably significantly better than a few years later, due to how vast an improvement 95 was.
There really, in my view, and in some of the magazine reviews I read back then, was nothing to recommend Windows 3.1(1) except if (a) you couldn't afford a Mac, or (b) you wanted to run software that wasn't available for one.
Suddenly, once 95 got traction, people promoting Macintoshes had to make excuses for the lack of memory protection or pre-emptive multitasking, on top of the high prices. And Windows just wasn't as godawful ugly any more.
But at the moment that ISPs were all sparking into existence, I don't think the wave had quite arrived. I mean, people were getting it and I do remember vaguely the initial version of IE, but 95 wasn't even the majority of PC users for a little while.
A browser for 3.1 that I kind of remember from those days, that lapsed into obscurity, was Cello:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cello_(web_browser)