But thanks to all those other cyberdogs, Apple’s own Cyberdog — a seemingly ordinary web browser and Internet suite with some unusual capabilities — has since slid into search engine obscurity. Apple had some big plans for it, though, and even wanted to give developers a way to develop their own components they could run inside of it. Not just plugins, either: we’re talking viewers, UI elements and even entire protocol handlers, implemented using Apple’s version of OpenDoc embedding.
The Apple of the ’90s is a treasure trove of weird stuff and random nonsense that never made it anywhere, and I’m always here for it.
I used cyberdog back in the day!
It came bundled with macworld/macformat magazine (i forget which but one of the two). So apple really pushed it at first.
It was so cool but at the same time you have to remember it in context. It was more akin to an AOL-style portal into a walled garden than a web browser as we think of them today.
The trouble was its walled garden was mostly empty and what Was there was completely US-centric (it didnt even have non-US sports results). That’s what killed it in the end. Why use Cyberdog when AOL was so much better?