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Netscape Founder Says Web Browsing Innovation Dead
mattOzan writes "Marc Andreessen told Reuters today that browser innovation ended five years ago (which would put us at about Navigator 4.5 beta -- what was so innovative about that? The "What's Related" button? Beatnik integration?) "Navigation is an embarrassment. Using bookmarks and back and forth buttons -- we had about eighteen different things we had in mind for the browser." Well, pass me the NDA and tell me what they were!"
a sore loser to me...
In "internet years." Next thing he'll be saying "When I was a kid, we have 256 colors, and we liked it! And only 216 of them were palette safe and that was even better!"
Now you've got me bummed out again. I guess I'll go read "IT" again.
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web browsing innovation makes Netscape dead!
"Marc Andreessen told Reuters today that browser innovation ended five years ago."
In the same breath,
"Reuters told Marc Andreessen today that he should have ended five years ago."
What's up Marc?
I don't want any crazy wacky shit in my browser damnit. Give me Lynx or give me kernel OOPS! I don't have time to mess around with graphics candy browsers and desktops. I do all my work in console, because that's how real Unix guru work. I wish they concentrate on make Linux better OS than worry about graphic candy game-ladden mentality. For girls and crap! Who needs them anyway, I'm gonna go finish coding this stuff so I can play D&D. And no I never kissed a girl before (and I'm 31) but so what? I'm root!
I thought LoudCloud sounded too much like free taco night at a game convention anyway.
I completely agree.
-any webprogrammer/designer
"You visited http://clownsex.org. Perhaps you'd also like...
http://sex.com
http://clonesex.org
http://clownsontop.com
http://clownpenis.fart
http://kuro5hin.org"
...because the number of software patents alone in the 1990s would have given him a heart attack.
"Accept that some days you are the pigeon, and some days you are the statue." - David Brent, Wernham Hogg
Great idea.
hover over this.
(for the love of god DON'T click it. This is a joke posting, not a goatse troll)
Your browsing appears inefficent, why not try...
I'd continue but its making me feel ill.
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othy
You made me feel like a really really old man now, when I was a kid we didn't have no fancy 256 colors. We had 16 colors on a Commodore 64, and we liked it. Btw, I'm 24.
Kjella
Live today, because you never know what tomorrow brings
God dam it man, when will you learn, the correct termage is
You: "shotgun"
M$FanBoy: "Yugh..."
Don't forget that you could still say 'You can't get a viruse just by reading email.' That's just a hoax.
Yes... Good Times.
I metamoderate, therefore I am
Actually, that sounds like a pretty good idea.
16 colors?! I remember back when we had 2 colors, green and black - and by golly we were happy to have those!
I remember backmin 1970, we had all the color, and sounds sent to us, into our home, for free! Megabits per second streaming seamlessly into our homes. ;)
Granted, it was only one way
The Kruger Dunning explains most post on
browsing for porn. Would you like to:
a) View quality free XXX sites
b) Optimize your mouse/keyboard for better one-handed surfing
c) Find out how to clear your cache before mom comes home
I compare browsing to the mechanics of reading a book: Book -> TOC -> Chapters -> Pages... if ya wanna get fancy, then throw in an index or bib.
With that mindset, viewing web pages are the equivalent to turning pages...
Right, except that if the average web site was a book, a third of the pages would be ripped, another third pissed on and finally a third with page after page of "EnglishScript error on line 4 of page 451. Do you want to debug?"
Technology never ceases to amaze me.
Um, hello McFly? Mozilla runs on Windoze. (As well as anything can)
You left out the gesture for when the browser crashes.
BURNINATION to anyone who questions the need for homestar runner!!!!!!
BURNINATION to Marc!!!
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Well, at least journalistic "innovation" is not dead.
Free as in mason.
No Half-Life 2
640 KB is almost enough for anyone
The lunatic is in my head
What does PHP stand for?
Depends on who you ask. Some of us like to say:
Poorly Hung PerlDuke Nukem Forever still a possibility of coming out before the next glacier slides across continental US soil
"Well kids, you tried your best, and you failed. The lesson is, never try." -Homer Simpson
I would have agreed with you until recently. I was fixing my sister's computer (why do I always get stuck supporting Windows? I don't use Windows. Ever.) and got hit with a series of popups from MSIE:
Yeah, there are a lot of idiots out there. I don't think that I'm one of them, but that popup almost caught me anyway.
As a solution, I would recommend that Windows only ran software out of a specific $PATH, and that all parts of that $PATH are only writeable by Administrator. Make the sole method of getting software into that directory to be by popping up a big Mac OS X-like "Please enter your password to install <program>" so that it's impossible to accidentally install something.
Dewey, what part of this looks like authorities should be involved?
These quotes were made about a week ago.
And we all know what great strides have been made in browser innovation in the past week.....
The out of context statement I might buy, but excusing the comments as old might work if they were two years old, but a week?
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As a matter of fact, I am a lawyer. But I play an actor on TV.
I can't see shit. Oh, you mean I need Java? Yeah, that's real innovation in browsing in action there....