The first Internet browser was actually Prodgity and the first website was www.com; then America Online aka "AOL" came to being then the others including "Nutscape" as it was affectionally known (Netscape) - and oh, if only they would leave the original www.com as so it was so that people could view the past ... the original INTERNET, the BEGINNING - and MAN was it a cram-jam page! LOL!

You are absolutely correct - Firebird before it was called FireFox (due to trademark which they had to change it in Mozilla.org which now is Mozilla.com).

Back then in the beginning - there were only 3 browsers:
1) AOL
2) Nutscape
3) IE

And all were under dial up - the speed load up is according to my end:

1) AOL - 9 Mbps
2) IE - 8.1 Mbps
3) Nut - 4.8 Mbps - and often caused me to be booted and lose the page; deleted it

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TODAY - running at 1.0 Gbps

Up time - no O/C (overclocking):

1) IE 9 (E - "enhanced" - but with quite a few features disabled) - 123.89 Mbps
2) FF 13.0.1 (still crashing after BETA) - 142.01 Mbps
3) MSN - ? - (Blue Screen Every Time!) - clocked at 98.7 Mbps
4) DNS/IP (my provider's) - 151.9 Mbps

Down Time (for downloading)

1) IE 9 (E) - 223.33 Mbps
2) FF (13.0.1) - 279.04 Mbps (but crashes)
3) MSN - can't use it due to Blue Screen
4) DNS/IP - 288.46 Mbps (they run on low encryption so I avoid this unless it is VIP)

How's that for a huge dramatic change over the decades from the beginning since dial up to the latest up-to-date technology since IPv6 (6over4) - part of it has a lot to do with the Military Bases and Headquarters which surrounds me; who demands the fastest and highest speeds of everything as it is imperative; with all due respect to Military and Feds all over the place.

Before you know it - we will be running at Giggle-bytes per a second! (LOL! I love calling that .... "Gigglebytes" :-D - got to love it!)