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AOL to Shut Down Netscape Support/Development
Kelson writes "After years of trying to figure out what to do with it, AOL is officially discontinuing the Netscape browser. In the four and a half years after they dismantled the development team and spun off the Mozilla Foundation as a lost cause, only to see Firefox take off, AOL has tried twice to reinvent Netscape. There was the chimera-like Netscape 8, which used both Mozilla's and IE's rendering engines, and just months ago they released Netscape 9, trying to ride the social networking wave. AOL will release security fixes through February 1, 2008, after which the browser will officially be dead. For the "nostalgic," they suggest using Firefox and installing a Netscape theme."
Yes, because everyone that wasn't a fetus was online. My first computer was a 98SE (and Red Hat thanks to a "For Dummies" Book) and not exactly during Netscapes hayday. As a matter of fact, AOL is probably the most popular version of Netscape known (well, it's not known it's Netscape). 11 years is a long time and these past 11 years in particular have drastically changed the face of the net. Like I said, I'm probably too young to care.