Neoplanet browser skins

[Luke98]

I know this will reveal I'm not new to computer age, but I have enjoyed so much to reinstall an old beautiful browser called Neoplanet.

I'm sure many of you remember it ... I was also searching online to find its old skins, but to no avail so far... any of you knows where to find some? Any repository or archive anywhere or even better a link to download?

Thanks guys, have a good one!

[+Warwagon MVC]

Holy crap, I haven't thought about that browser in FOREVER!

I'm pretty sure it used the IE engine, so while it was pretty, I would recommend not using it in 2023.

[Xenon]

On 15/03/2023 at 12:10, Warwagon said:

Holy crap, I haven't thought about that browser in FOREVER!

I'm pretty sure it used the IE engine, so while it was pretty, I would recommend not using it in 2023.

Actually the last I heard (like a decade or two ago) it was based on mozilla. 

[+Warwagon MVC]

On 15/03/2023 at 11:36, Xenon said:

Actually the last I heard (like a decade or two ago) it was based on mozilla. 

Ah, well in that case it uses the engine it came with which is super old.

[branfont]

On 15/03/2023 at 10:36, Xenon said:

Actually the last I heard (like a decade or two ago) it was based on mozilla. 

NeoPlanet was a Trident-shell graphical web browser. So, MSHTML...........

 

On 15/03/2023 at 08:43, Luke98 said:

I know this will reveal I'm not new to computer age, but I have enjoyed so much to reinstall an old beautiful browser called Neoplanet.

I'm sure many of you remember it ... I was also searching online to find its old skins, but to no avail so far... any of you knows where to find some? Any repository or archive anywhere or even better a link to download?

Thanks guys, have a good one!

It hasn't had a stable release in almost 23 years, and it used the Trident engine of MSIE.

[Xenon]

On 15/03/2023 at 13:13, branfont said:

NeoPlanet was a Trident-shell graphical web browser. So, MSHTML...........

 

It hasn't had a stable release in almost 23 years, and it used the Trident engine of MSIE.

I stand corrected!

[DramaInc]

On 15/03/2023 at 09:43, Luke98 said:

I know this will reveal I'm not new to computer age, but I have enjoyed so much to reinstall an old beautiful browser called Neoplanet.

I'm sure many of you remember it ... I was also searching online to find its old skins, but to no avail so far... any of you knows where to find some? Any repository or archive anywhere or even better a link to download?

Thanks guys, have a good one!

I tried using that on my Pentium 120 with 16mb of ram.  It was beautiful but lagged so bad for me.  

NEOPLANET ONLINE

[nerim]

On 15/03/2023 at 12:12, DramaInc said:

It was beautiful but lagged so bad for me.

Was it back in the time of 14.4 dialup? 😟

I remember it, and I also recall a separate browser-like thing called PointCast, that fed news and weather headines to your PC.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PointCast

[Luke98]

Guys you are all right! The Neoplanet browser is way more than outdated and might surely be "dangerous"... it is not a matter of finding an alternative to modern Chrome or Safari. The matter is just a thing of nostalgia. I am running Neoplanet either on a Windows simulation vai Parallels on Mac or directly on Mac with Crossover.

I liked the cumbersome feeling of that old browser and that is why I was looking for "skins" I used to use when Neoplanet was a legit and nice piece of software, and that was exactly my query... anyone of you knows a repository or a whatnot where to find Neoplanet skins?

Many thanks to you all!

[DramaInc]

On 15/03/2023 at 15:07, nerim said:

Was it back in the time of 14.4 dialup? 😟

I remember it, and I also recall a separate browser-like thing called PointCast, that fed news and weather headines to your PC.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PointCast

28.8.  56k was the distance dream that only middle class people could afford at the time. 

Pointcast is neat.  Never heard of it.  

[Xenon]

I still remember the day I got my 56k modem. I was looking for one for awhile and I was at a star trek convention (yes really) in nyc.  My friends and I decided to go get some lunch and we passed a eggheads store (old computer store) and they had one in the window. I bought it and it was glorious! 

[nerim]

On 16/03/2023 at 09:29, Xenon said:

I was at a star trek convention (yes really)

You too! I used to go to those from the very early '70s 'til the late '80s! 😁 

[branfont]

On 15/03/2023 at 11:42, Xenon said:

I stand corrected!

At least you admit that you were wrong, I know a lot of people who will argue a point, because they think they are right, even though they are so totally wrong.

[Barney T. Administrators]

I used Neoplanet too! It was awesome in its time!

[Buddy1065]

I have Lycos, boiler room, default, Far Scape, Holographic, Nightshade, Sin_Skin, Steel Blade, Steel Rain, and Titanium. Also Wild Browser. Tried to install an old Neoplanet exe but Windows 11 won't allow it.

EDIT: It works on Windows 10 but browsing ability is of course outdated.

Edited October 14, 2023 by Buddy1065