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Netscape Turns 10
An anonymous reader writes "Today marks ten years since the first public beta of Netscape Navigator was released. Both CNet News.com and MozillaZine have full coverage, with the former revealing that AOL is planning to release a new version Netscape in the New Year (thankfully separate from the IE-based version of AOL's browser). Even the Netscape portal (which never mentions the Netscape browser) is celebrating the anniversary. A lot of water has passed under the bridge in the last decade (especially since AOL bought Netscape) and the baton has now passed onto the Netscape alumni-filled Mozilla Foundation, but it's still worth remembering that Netscape changed the world not once (by making the first really good browser), but twice (by being the first major commercial program to go open source)."
Didn't it die when it was 5?
perhaps we could all encapsulate our websites with the tag?
If only Slashdot could tell me what to think.
Perhaps its time I updated.
Hi! I'm an AOL user Where can I download it from?
it would be interesting to run the old version for memory sakes...
I believe you meant memory leaks.
BAH!
When I was your age I had to paint the web page on cardboard with watercolors using my fingers...uphill--BOTH WAYS!!
Young whippersnappers!
slashdot: A failed experiment.
What was wrong with gopher??
Dad?
Is that you?
h4 ha. he should have us3d firefox, then he wouldn't have malware corrupt his system wtf LOL!!11!!!
I remember when you were [BUFFERING... BUFFERING...] Oh, wait. That's Real. Sorry, wrong joke.
my password is private, but unchanged.
You were lucky to have cardboard. When I needed to see a web page, I remember waking up at 4AM, walking 15 miles down a gravel road, barefoot, to the nearest telephone pole, climb up to the top, and absorb the data through me tounge, walk the 15 gruling miles back home and spit on some worn cloth.
It doesn't even render correctly in Netscape 7.2. :P
"Dad?
Is that you?"
Asking somebody on Slashdot if they're your father... That raises some interesting questions about your mom.
"Derp de derp."
Now that's pretty ironic eh...
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Yeah, I remember the first time I used the Internet as well. I remember thinking, just one more line and I'll be able to see her nipple.
Microsoft, even with all their money, would be bankrupt in no time if they did that.
There are two rules for success:
1. Never tell everything you know.
You strange people. I have no idea what you're talking about, but I'll just post on my BBS and see if the dozen "home computer" users in my area know anything about this.
No metlin, that's not your father. I knew your father during the Browser Wars.
A young hacker who was a pupil of mine until he turned to evil, helped the CEO of Microsoft hunt down and destroy developers working on "other browsers". He betrayed and murdered your father.
Appended to the end of comments you post. 120 chars.
Didn't it die when it was 5?
And so at last the beast fell and the unbelievers rejoiced. But all was not lost, for from the ash rose a great bird. The bird gazed down upon the unbelievers and cast fire and thunder upon them. For the beast had been reborn with its strength renewed, and the followers of Mammon cowered in horror.
from The Book of Mozilla, 7:15