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Netscape 6.1
max2010 writes: "Netscape Browser Version 6.1 is released.
Give it a try, grab the 25MByte junk of code for MAC, Unix and Windows at ftp.netscape.com." MSNBC has a brief story about the release.
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download the broswer - Junk is more than appropriate for the latest AOL umm i mean Nestcape browser
25 megs? What the hell did they put in it? Why can't they just release the damn browser by itself?
8.2 MBs of browser, 6.8 MBs of Java and 10 MBs of a video clip of Steve Case jumping around like a monkey, screaming, "WOO! HOO! WAA! HAA! Look at me, I'm Steve Ballmer! HEE HEE!"
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A.D. 2001
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6.1 was happening
CTO: What happen !!
ADMIN: Somebody set up us the crap.
USER: We get web page.
CTO: What !!
USER: Main browser turn on.
NETSCAPE: How are you gentlemen?
NETSCAPE: All your memory are belong to us.
NETSCAPE: You are on your way to crash.
CTO: What you say !!
NETSCAPE: You have no change to shutdown make your time.
NETSCAPE: Ha ha ha ha
USER: CTO !!
CTO: Take off every 'IE6' !!
CTO: You know what you doing.
CTO: Move 'IE6'.
CTO: For great browsing.
If it's the first one, doesn't that preclude the possibility of it being the final one?
I'm so confused.
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Bleah! Heh heh heh... BLEAH BLEAH!!! Ha ha ha ha...
Doesn't he mean "chunk" of code? Little Freudian slip there? :)
Well, they do kinda have a point, especially if you buy into the "browser wars" buzzword. By this point, if you're on a Windows box -- which most people are, especially those who read MSNBC for their "news" -- the odds are that you're using IE. I use a Windows box, and, honestly, I like IE... and I was one of the most die-hard against it, until it went to version 5.0 (SP1) while Netscape was still wasting away in version 4.x.
/. has such a thing) or have a Linux box (same difference? ;-)you've probably caved and gone with IE now. So loyalists are all that are left.
The point that he's trying to make is that by now, unless you have a major grudge against M$ (not that anyone on
AHHHHHHH! I'm burning with goodness again!
- Reakk, Sluggy Freelance
The only advantage I can think of is when you tell someone what browser you are using they don't say, "Huh, never heard of it!"
perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5, (41*2), sqrt(7056), (unpack(c,H)-2), oct(115), 10);'
I am sure max2010 meant to say "hunk of code" not "junk of code". Right? The 'j' and the 'h' are right next to each other on the keyboard.
Netscape was once the darling of open source, how times have changed.
Didn't they have a press release about two months ago that said they weren't going to release any more browsers?
Web developers rejoiced across the world on that day.
The man who trades freedom for security does not deserve nor will he ever receive either. - Benjamin Franklin
IDENTIFICATION DIVISION.
PROGRAM-ID. SLASHDOT-COMMENT.
AUTHOR. SHEPD.
INSTALLATION. UNIVAC.
DATE-WRITTEN. THE-EPOCH.
DATE-COMPILED. NEVER DID GET IT TO DO THAT.
SECURITY. NONE.
ENVIRONMENT DIVISION.
DATA DIVISION.
FILE SECTION.
WORKING-STORAGE SECTION.
01 PLEASE-GOD-NO.
05 THEY-MADE-ME-DO-IT PIC X(3) VALUE "TRUE"
05 OUTPUT-STUFF PIC X(100000) VALUE SPACES.
PROCEDURE DIVISION.
LET-ME-OUT-PROCEDURE.
IF THIS-LANGUAGE-SUCKS IS GREATER THAN OR EQUAL TO TRUE THEN
MOVE "COBOL" TO OUTPUT-STUFF
WRITE OUTPUT-STUFF AFTER ADVANCING 3 LINES
ELSE
MOVE "NOT COBOL" TO OUTPUT-STUFF
WRITE OUTPUT-STUFF AFTER ADVANCING 3 LINES
END IF.
END-LET-ME-OUT-PROCEDURE.
MOVE SPACES TO OUTPUT-STUFF
WRITE OUTPUT-STUFF AFTER ADVANCING 1 PAGE
STOP RUN.
Does that explain it? My College thought that Cobol would be a good skill to have when we graduate in 2002 so they figured they would make it a mandatory credit.
Instead I think it brain my damaged.
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