AMSD Ariadna
AMSD Ariadna is the first Russian web browser ever developed. It was developed by Advanced Multimedia System Design (AMSD) in early 1994.
| Developer(s) | Advanced Multimedia System Design |
|---|---|
| Initial release | 1995 |
| Stable release | 1.3
/ 1996 |
| Operating system | Windows 95 Windows NT |
| Available in | Web browser |
| License | Proprietary |
| Website | www |
Development
To spread word of the Internet in Russia, AMSD researched the web browser in 1994. It was released in 1995 and was ported to Windows 95 and Windows NT.
By the time of its introduction, Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator, two no-cost browsers, were dominating the Russian browser market. Ariadna, however, wasn't free software and, despite its high quality, failed to make a stance in the market and was terminated a few years later.[1]
Features
Being a pioneer browser, Ariadna has limited functionality compared to today's browsers. Some features include:[1]
- HTML 3.2 support
- PNG support,[2] including transparency (but not as background images)
- Limited Java support (only JDK 1.02)
- E-mail and text box support
- 50,000 word English-Russian dictionary[3]
- Data filter
Ariadna does not support animated GIFs or JavaScript.
gollark: According to our memetoapiologists, however, THIS is you.
gollark: Or am I an arrayh of strings?
gollark: There's nothing there. Is this part of the memetic hazard?
gollark: Interestingly, it doesn't have you flagged as bad. This is due to the fact that I never updated it after Incident 608-ν.
gollark: I had to reverse-engineer the Python random number generator and create a very precise electromagnetic interference generator to meddle with my CPU's HWRNG, but it was totally worth it.
References
- AMSD Ariadna History at AMSD.com Archived June 7, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
- AMSD Ariadna News Archived October 3, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
- AMSD Ariadna Home Page Archived November 16, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
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