History of Netscape and Mozilla

Sabah Arif writes "Netscape was there at the beginning of the internet boom. In 1996, the company controlled 90 percent of the browser market, but now its usershare is in the single digits. The spawn of Netscape, Firefox, has never been more popular, and is poised to beat Microsoft in the browser market. Read the history of Netscape and Mozilla at MLAgazine."

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Taco speaks English as a first language?

[bwy]

The spawn of Netscape, Firefox, has never been more popular, and is poised to beat Microsoft in the browser market.

Christ, is it just me or does Taco no longer speak English? I've read this sentence three times and I don't know what it means yet. Apparently the "spawn of" something known as "Netscape, Firefox" is somehow poised to compete. Total jibberish.

craptastic

[towndowner]

that article sucked ass, and made me pine for the days of... well... pine. gopher never took me to badly-written malfactual articles on crap i and ten-thousand other slashdot readers already knew more about than the authors. i also find it a bit suspect that web browsers were what made the internet "big shit". certainly the newly graphical nature of the web played a role, but from my perspective (rural southeast america circa mid-summer mid-nineties), it was simply the appearance of national ISP's with toll-free dialup that was the catalyst - that is, it's the last mile, silly. signal-to-noise ratio never recovered from AOL coming on the net. indirectly, they should take the blame for the heinous use of language and complete lack of content in the above-referenced article. back to silly flash movies for me.