Your browser will open an HTML directly from your hard drive as a
sanity check before you upload it. Pure HTML will open in Word, in
fact I sometimes compose pages there.
Sure, *now*. Back then my computer didn't even have Windows. It had
an ensemble called "GeoWorks". Similar in concept to Windows and, at
the time, many considered it superior to Windows I.
I forget what the "browser" was back then or even how it all worked.
I think it may have been Netscape Navigator. I recall "AltaVista" as
being the search engine.
How long ago are we talking about?
HTML did not come into common usage until the early 90s and by then
W/3.1 was around (93).
I was running W/3.1 pretty early because the BB manager of Prodigy
required it. That was the only way to keep my "minutes" down online.
Prodigy embraced 3.1 pretty much from it's release tho, although I ran
the DOS version as long as I could.
I only loaded windows when I absolutely needed it. IBM had a multi
tasker that run under DOS, also allowing 4 VM sessions on the IBM
network and that was my normal desktop application at work.
If you walked up to my PC you would see 4 VM sessions, the DOS box
would have dBase running and I might be using the DOS call function
there to do minor housekeeping.
It was in the 1994-95 time frame. You reminded me ... I also used
Prodigy.