Netscape Turns 10

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Posted by ryuzaki0 on Wednesday October 13, 2004 @03:45PM 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)."

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DEBATE POLL: REPLY WITH WHO YOU THINK WON! by Anonymous Coward · 2004-10-13 15:47 · Score: -1, Offtopic

I think Bush won because Kerry looked angry.

I also think Kerry won though b/c he has a solution for Iraq and Bush has lost jobs.

REPLY with your thoughts.
Yeah but... by gront · 2004-10-13 15:48 · Score: -1, Offtopic

when will Slashdot work correctly with Firefox?
1. Re:Yeah but... by ZX81 · 2004-10-13 16:21 · Score: 0, Offtopic
  
  Works fine here...no problems and the rss feeds show up fine in Sage...
  
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2. Re:Yeah but... by Anonymous Coward · 2004-10-13 17:21 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  I don't know...it doesn't seem to be working for me. None of the pages load [this is the 1.0PR]. I had to switch over to Opera to post this, actually.
Re:DEBATE POLL: REPLY WITH WHO YOU THINK WON! by Anonymous Coward · 2004-10-13 15:49 · Score: -1, Offtopic

I don't have spare thoughts to give away, especially to an AC.
Re:DEBATE POLL: REPLY WITH WHO YOU THINK WON! by Anonymous Coward · 2004-10-13 15:53 · Score: -1, Offtopic

I think that I'd like to poke Heather Graham in any hole she wants until my balls fall off. But I still won't be buying Ever Quest II.
samzenpus by Anonymous Coward · 2004-10-13 16:02 · Score: -1, Offtopic

samzenpus?
now it's news by vm · 2004-10-13 16:52 · Score: 0, Offtopic

I posted this to Slashdot 12 hours ago and it was rejected. But now that every other site on the planet is carrying it, suddenly it's an important story. So much for independent thinking.
What a bunch of knuckleheads!
1. Re:now it's news by ggvaidya · 2004-10-13 17:19 · Score: 0, Offtopic
  
  That's just the way the Slashdot system works, buddy - centralised control for a better experience for all. If you're interested in a more free-as-in-freedom-for-all experience, try the alternatives. [/shameless plug]
Re:The old netscape - Reply to sig by xoran99 · 2004-10-13 16:58 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Click Preferences, Comments, and in the Reason Modifier for Funny, put -6 or something.

Moderators can't *make* you read anything.

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Re:DEBATE POLL: REPLY WITH WHO YOU THINK WON! by Anonymous Coward · 2004-10-13 18:39 · Score: -1, Offtopic

"I also think Kerry won though b/c he has a solution for Iraq"

A solution? Funny, he's had MANY solutions for Iraq over the course of this election. FYI, the post-dot-com hangover started on Clinton's watch.