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)."

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Re:Hello

[NutscrapeSucks]

I will give them that -- JavaScript is an excellent scripting language with a cool prototype-based object system. It's a shame that the opensource world embraced things like Perl (outside of its domains) and PHP (anywhere) when there's been an distributable JavaScript implementaiton for years.

(Although JS was based on a Sun language called ... Self).

On the other hand, Netscape also gave us window.open() and netscape.com was the first site to use advertising popups.