Internet Config
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Internet Config was an Internet preferences manager and API for Mac OS Classic. It was originally developed by Quinn! The Eskimo, Peter N Lewis and Marcus Jager and released in 1994 into the public domain. It was later bundled by Apple Inc..
Internet Config's purpose was to consolidate what was, at the time, an unwieldy number of options and settings related to Internet use that hadn't yet been integrated into the operating system's own control panel. Some settings were for a systemwide default web browser, home page, default ftp client, systemwide default download folder, and email settings. Internet Config represented an important ease of use advantage for the Macintosh platform on the early Internet.
The software consisted of two pieces, the Internet Config control panel which was actually just a normal application, and an 'appe' extension that launched at boot time but didn't patch any system traps.
Internet Config enabled the ability for applications to support command-clicking of URLs and have the URLs sent to the user selected application. For example, http: URLs would be sent to the selected web browser, ftp: URLs to the selected FTP client, mailto: URLs to the selected Email application, and so on.
The public domain nature of the project and the tight Internet community in the late 1990s led to the rapid adoption of the facility, and then to Apple bundling it as part of Mac OS.
