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What Really Happened?

Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, March 13 2013 @ 09:04 PM EDT

My recollection, from various websites post the event was that Spyglass won a
large settlement ( of the order of $500 million? ).

Basically in the early days of home internet, before MS had realized that the
internet existed, you got a cover disk off of a magazine and installed Netscape
from there, including software packages from various dial up ISPs so you could
sign up with them. The IP stack was also an add on (Trumpet winsock?).

I think from memory IE appeared on the cover disks and finally it was in the
default windows install. Once it was in the default install then it suddenly
became the default choice for many people / organisations as IE was little
effort whereas you needed to find the disks for Netscape. Note that web
browsers were large packages (10-20MB ?) and everyone was on dial-up - 10-20MB
was likely nearly an hours download if you did not have a coverdisk. I beleive
at the time you could actually get Netscape to post you a disk - but my memory
is hazy.

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