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Browsers didn't have tabs in the dialup days.

Mainstream browsers didn't, but tabs were around on windows since 1997.

I've been using Opera since version 4.0 (introduced in 2000), pretty much because it had tabs (it was revolutionary back then).

Dial-up was still going strong in the year 2K, I only got aDSL in 2003-2004.