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Netscape Turns 10

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the almost-a-teenager dept.

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)."

10 of 299 comments (clear)

  1. How can it be 10? by JazzXP · · Score: 5, Funny

    Didn't it die when it was 5?

    1. Re:How can it be 10? by secretsquirel · · Score: 4, Funny

      Couldn't have, it never even was 5. Somehow it went from 4.* to 6. So I guess now its really like 11 or something.

  2. To commemorate Netscape's 10 year anniversary by FunkyRat · · Score: 4, Funny

    perhaps we could all encapsulate our websites with the tag?

    1. Re:To commemorate Netscape's 10 year anniversary by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Actually, there is one valid use of the Blink tag..

      Schroedinger's cat is <blink>not</blink> dead.

  3. I forget if we're supposed to hate them by genericacct · · Score: 5, Funny
    Is Netscape evil or saintly? I can't keep it straight. They broke W3C standards and are owned by AOL, but Mozilla doesn't suck anymore.

    If only Slashdot could tell me what to think.

  4. 10 years, eh? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Perhaps its time I updated.

  5. Re:Netscape portal is like a domain squatters by skitzoid+(moomoo) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Hi! I'm an AOL user Where can I download it from?

  6. Re:The old netscape by FrankHaynes · · Score: 4, Funny

    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!

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  7. Re:The old netscape by metlin · · Score: 4, Funny

    Dad?

    Is that you?

  8. Re:The old netscape by NanoGator · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Dad?

    Is that you?"

    Asking somebody on Slashdot if they're your father... That raises some interesting questions about your mom.

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