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    Posted on October 30, 2023 at 02:41 CDT by • Comment in the Forums

    ON SECURITY

    Susan Bradley

    By Susan Bradley

    If you are as old as I am, you will remember the revolutionary changes the browser Netscape Navigator and search engine AltaVista brought to our desktops.

    In what now seems like an overnight event, all those research topics that used to require a trip to our local libraries became a mere dial-up call away, using our light-speed, 9600-baud modems. Okay, a little patience was required in those days, even once those ubiquitous modems reached the dizzying heights of 56K.

    At about the same time, we witnessed the start of what was to become a decades-long browser and search-engine war, during which we all have probably changed allegiances several times.

    Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (20.44.0, 2023-10-30).

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