Cyberjack
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Cyberjack was the name for a Web browser application created by Delrina in 1995. It was sold as a stand-alone product, and was also bundled as part of Delrina's CommSuite 95 offering.
In addition to the Web browser application, it also included an ftp client, Usenet newsgroup reader, an IRC client, a graphic interface to gopher services and more. It used a Wizard-based front-end that would provided access to all of thee services. It was touted as being the first 32-bit based Web browsing program, and was aimed squarely at Windows 95 users. It could transform seamlessly from one application to another as required, a feature that would not be emulated until later browsers of the late 1990s.
As an application it arguably had two main drawbacks: its browser application was incapable of rendering tables, which were then becoming predominant in Web site design, and it also lacked an email client. While table support was added more than a year later[1], by that time it had lost important mindshare.
In the end, it arguably could not compete against other browser offerings that were offered for free, such as the contemporaneous Netscape Navigator or the later Internet Explorer.
[edit] External links
- Review of Cyberjack browser, accessed November 6, 2005
- Cyberjack promotional t-shirt of GeekT.org, accessed November 6, 2005
- Cyberjack.com support Web site, (its design originally dating to 1995), as seen on WaybackMachine.com
