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Mozilla Severs Netscape News Legacy

Posted by Zonk on from the you-can-never-go-home-again dept.

Juha-Matti Laurio writes "After years of official separation, Mozilla is just now shaking off some of the last vestiges of its parental association with Netscape. From the article: 'Mozilla's Usenet public newsgroups have been moved from netscape.public.mozilla.* to just mozilla.*. The renaming officially ends Mozilla's public Netscape news legacy after more than 8 years of active use. Most of the approximately 63 different newsgroups that began with the old moniker have now been officially abandoned.' Related: Earlier this week Netscape Communications released version 8.1 of its Netscape Browser."

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  1. Re:Netscape by Mercano · · Score: 5, Funny

    There still arround, they've just become the Switzerland of the browser wars.

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  2. shades of Dr. Evil by 42Penguins · · Score: 5, Funny

    This reminds me of Austin Powers...

    Under the Ballmer-McBride thesis that open source is evil, Netscape is Scotty and Mozilla is Mini Me:

    Netscape, you're semi-evil. You're quasi-evil. You're the margarine of evil. You're the Diet Coke of evil. Just one calorie, not evil enough!

  3. Re:Includes by EvilMonkeySlayer · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yes, you could even say it was reborn in a "phoenix" like event...

  4. Spellchecker... by IAAP · · Score: 4, Funny
    At the time, their HTLM editor had no spell checker a...

    Still using that version? :-) (I have no right to throw stones - I knw!)

  5. Re:In other news.... by Caldeso · · Score: 5, Funny

    I remember that mystical feeling of the early days when people used paragraphs.