The Finns Who Invented the Graphical Browser 148
waderoush writes "If you thought Mosaic was the first graphical Web browser, think again. In their first major interview, three of the four Finnish software engineers behind Erwise — a point-and-click graphical Web browser for the X Window system — describe the creation of their program in 1991-1992, a full year before Marc Andreessen's Mosaic (which, of course, evolved into Netscape). Kim Nyberg, Kari Sydänmaanlakka, and Teemu Rantanen, with their fellow Helsinki University of Technology student Kati Borgers (nee Suominen), gave Erwise features such as text searching and the ability to load multiple Web pages that wouldn't be seen in other browsers until much later. The three engineers, who today work for the architectural software firm Tekla, say they never commercialized the project because there was no financing — Finland was in a deep recession at the time and lacked a strong venture capital or angel investing market. Otherwise, the Web revolution might have begun a year earlier."
ha ha (Score:2, Funny)
Re:?tsop tsrif (Score:4, Funny)
?täsoopiyauo tsauyriifäää
I'm sorry, this is a story about Finns. Corrected that for you.
Opera Was First! (Score:5, Funny)
Despite the company and browser not existing at the time, I can confidently say that Opera had all these features before Erwise. There will be naysayers, of course.
Real men use gopher... (Score:3, Funny)
Harumph!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_(protocol) [wikipedia.org]
8-)
So... (Score:5, Funny)
Who are they suing?
Re:When an American is credited with an invention (Score:2, Funny)
What bugs me to some extent on this note, even though you were modded down (Which a good 50% of the time here is a pack of pricks just causing trouble)?
Is that folks from other nations may "hate on us", but, they fail to realize something: THIS NATION IS COMPOSED OF THEIR NATIONALS WHO MIGRATED HERE, thus, i.e.? We ARE they also.
Now - I can understand disliking the U.S.A. in some of its governmental policies (especially the BUSH administration, thank God they are gone now), but, not its people as a whole.
I've been called all kinds of racial slurs in my time, because of my bloodline, & realize it's crap: There are GOOD people of all types, and BAD people of all types, & good & bad? Just points of view.
APK
Re:Real men use gopher... (Score:3, Funny)
And WAIS. Real Men use Gopher and WAIS. And Archie. Real Men use Gopher and WAIS and Archie. And the Spanish Inquisition.
Re:Correction. (Score:3, Funny)
Get off my Lawn!
I had to whistle into the phone in my day....
Actually my first was a 300baud with accoustic coupler....