Netscape Finally Put Down

Stony Stevenson writes to point out that Netscape has finally reached end of line with the release of version 9.0.0.6. A pop-up will offer users the choice of switching to Firefox, Flock, or remaining with the dead browser, but no new updates will be released. "Nearly 14 years after the once mighty browser made its first desktop appearance as Mosaic Netscape 0.9, its disappearance comes as little surprise. Although Netscape accounted for more than 80 per cent of the browser market in 1995, the arrival of Microsoft's Internet Explorer in the same year brought stiff competition and surpassed Netscape within three years."

Comments

Re:AOL is Death

[andy314159pi]

The CDs are like death spores.

I think there's a barrio of Mexico City that is made entirely of discarded AOL CDs.

about:mozilla

[calebt3]

And so at last the beast fell and the unbelievers rejoiced.
But all was not lost, for from the ash rose a great bird.
The bird gazed down upon the unbelievers and cast fire
and thunder upon them. For the beast had been
reborn with its strength renewed, and the
followers of Mammon cowered in horror.

from The Book of Mozilla, 7:15

Again?

[Chris Burkhardt]

How many times is Netscape going to die?

Re:Again?

[evilviper]

Ask Atari or Napster. Old trademarks never die, they just get adopted by successively seedier operations.

My $30 Polaroid DVD player begs to differ.

Hey, where's that burning smell coming from?

Re:They should keep the name ...

[ockegheim]

Maybe the US government is sponsoring them. You need IE or Netscape to get a US visa. So if, say, you have a Mac or run Linux, then Netscape has a monopoly.

Brings back memories.

[zippthorne]

This reminds me, I wonder what Lycos is doing these days.

Re:They Eat Horses, Don't They?

[sporkme]

Horseshit! Are you saying that people eat animals?! We need to get this onto the front page of Slashdot, neigh, the Times!!! Is there a gallop poll regarding Japan's or the United States' horse meat consumption? And does it give you the trots?

For Barbaro's sake... the horse had a good run. Making hay from an article about web browsers is to saddle the issue with an agenda; please do not bridle our argument by being a horse's ass. This is a discussion about software, and to jockey animal rights into it is just putting the cart before the horse. So slow down there, cowboy... Reign it in. While I am sure you're chomping at the bit to get this kind of information out, I am fresh out of insensitive horse puns and we will have to put this discussion out to stud.

Polo!