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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)."

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  1. fp baby by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    FP!!

  2. Hello by NutscrapeSucks · · Score: -1, Troll

    Nutscrape Sucks.

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    Whenever I hear the word 'Innovation', I reach for my pistol.
    1. Re:Hello by NutscrapeSucks · · Score: 0, Troll

      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.

      --
      Whenever I hear the word 'Innovation', I reach for my pistol.
  3. WTF is wrong with you. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Why do you troll slashdot like this? If you don't like it leave! quit complaining. I don't want to hear it. it's annoying. Go do somthing productive. I don't like seeing useless crap comments like this. You are as bad as GNAA trolls.

  4. It's BUSH's FAULT! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Netscape died because Bush dropped the case against Microsoft. VOTE Kerry, because he knows how to ride bikes and eat pretzels, not to mention handle combat outside of a video game. Bush Sucks Cock. Kerry sucks Ketchup. You decide. Oh, and I'm totally wrong about my choices, but at least I support them to the very end, even though their wrong. Won't call me a flip-flopper. Bitch.