After designing websites for nearly 15 years, there’s one thing that I learned very quickly and 15 years later I am still reminded about it every day — web browser compatibility. Today it’s much worse than many years ago. I remember like it was yesterday when all I really had to worry about was Netscape and IE. There were others, Opera was popular then too. But majority used IE and Netscape. Also, good old 800×600 screen resolution too!
Anyway, I had a random thought and decided to research what the very first web browser was and to check if that browser was still current. Amazingly it is! And I even guessed which one it was! — Lynx. (more…)