A friend of mine at work today said that he wanted to change his browser’s useragent to Mosaic (the first browser, circa 1992-ish). I was thinking that would be awesome! Could you imagine the Facebook people looking at their UserAgent reports and seeing a growing, if not significant number of users using a Mosaic browser (doesn’t render javascript, css, no plugins, etc …) Barely any sites would even render properly much less work in Mosaic. If you’re interested, here’s a few Mosaic UserAgent strings. I may use it as the default in my crawler. :)

Mosaic/2.1 (Amiga ARexx) Mozilla/1.0 (compatible; NCSA Mosaic; Atari 800-ST) NCSA_Mosaic/2.0 (Windows 3.1)

I particularly like the Atari 800 one. :)

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