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An Old Story We Have to Keep in Mind<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

For a long time, (we could put an ending line around the year 1995) my Internet toolkit was made by Netscape Communicator (or Netscape Navigator), my search engine was Altavista and Eudora was my e-mail client (for the younger readers, they are the ones you can see in the following images).<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Altavista\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Eudora\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Their setup was available on a single floppy disk and they made their work in an outstanding manner. Ok, there was not too much to do, given the kind of Internet we had at the time, but this is a whole different story \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

As soon as people in Microsoft realized the importance of the Internet (and of the related browser), they started pushing Internet Explorer and, with a daring\u00a0move, \u201cintegrated\u201d it in the Operating System.<\/span><\/p>\n

The aforementioned decision (that brought to a long story of charges for anti-trust violations) meant that an Operating System with a market-share over 90% as a client O.S., came with its own Internet browsing software.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the same period, Netscape products started performing worse and worse in Windows, new features were available only for Internet Explorer users and the \u201cchoice\u201d of the Internet browser turned out to be a joke for many years.<\/span><\/p>\n

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A Brave New World<\/strong><\/p>\n

We have seen an astonishing number of changes during the past years, including (and not limited to):<\/span><\/p>\n