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Cyberdog was a web browser/Internet application suite like Netscape. If it’s the spiritual predecessor to anything, it’s Safari, not iCloud, but I wouldn’t say it was even that. It was really just a tech demo. From what I remember, it was just barely functional. It was something you’d run after you installed OpenDoc and say “that’s neat” about and then never touch again.

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> From what I remember, it was just barely functional

Cyberdog had instantaneous indexed search for local text, which combined really well with tech mailing lists that were really popular back in the day.

That didn't become a part of the feature set on Windows until Windows Vista shipped a decade later.

>Cyberdog had instantaneous indexed search for local text

Was that what eventually became V-Twin, and then became Spotlight indexing? I vaguely remember that from the Cyberdog/OpenDoc days. I always wanted to play around with it, but it was so memory intensive for the Mac I had access to at the time. It seemed amazing though, like a big step up from OLE (in terms of technology).

Cyberdog was the first software to ship with the Advanced Technology Group's V-Twin search tech. It was added to the Finder search in Classic Mac OS and as Spotlight in OSX.

I remember using Cyberdog some in the late 90s, and what I saw most often is that it’d work fine for a while (as long as all the sites you visited were text and images with nothing fancy), and then start stalling when loading pages. Of course that might’ve just been the flakiness of the 28k dialup connection the house was on back then, but Netscape 3.x and 4.0.1 from the same era didn’t exhibit that behavior as often.

Get progressive rendering by using OpenDoc to embed MSIE's engine within the Cyberdog shell https://web.archive.org/web/19990302062719/http://www.kantar... :2bong:

Cyberdog also included a handful of apps that were annoying to install on the Mac in 1996: contacts, e-mail, FTP, newsgroups, etc.

There were actually a lot of good freeware and shareware apps for most of that — things like Eudora for e-mail, Fetch for FTP, and NewsWatcher for NNTP.

For sure. Cyberdog, for a brief moment, made it easy to find and install alternatives to Cyberdog!

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