alt.hn

1/27/2026 at 7:03:45 PM

History of the browser user-agent string (2008)

https://webaim.org/blog/user-agent-string-history/

by smushy

2/1/2026 at 4:10:23 PM

Microsoft didn't write Internet Explorer, they licensed it from Spyglass, they had a "Spyglass Mosaic browser" which was ultimately based on Mosaic.

by stevekemp

1/27/2026 at 9:17:01 PM

Ah, 2008. It didn't even reach the introduction of the iPhone user agent for a new mobile browsing experience, and then every mobile browser pretending to be an iPhone to get the same design...

What was it before the iPhone? WAP?

by netsharc