Cyberdog
Cyberdog was an OpenDoc-based Internet suite of applications, developed by Apple Computer for the Mac OS line of operating systems. It was introduced as a beta in February 1996 and abandoned in March 1997. The last version, Cyberdog 2.0, was released on April 28, 1997. It worked with later versions of System 7 as well as the Mac OS 8 and Mac OS 9 operating systems. Cyberdog derived its name from a cartoon in The New Yorker captioned "On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog." History Cyberdog 1 Apple released the first beta version of Cyberdog on February 16, 1996. Apple released Cyberdog 1.0 on May 13, 1996. Apple released Cyberdog 1.2 on December 4, 1996. Cyberdog 2 Apple released a first alpha version on December 21, 1996, with new features such as frames, cookies and animated GIF support. Apple also released Cyberdog 2.0 with Mac OS 8.0, allowing Mac Runtime for Java to be utilized and also had minor bugs with OpenDoc fixed. Overview Cyberdog included email and news readers, a web browser and address book management components, as well as drag and drop FTP. OpenDoc allowed these components to be reused and embedded in other documents by