Goodbye Mr. Netscape
October 1994 - October 2007
Sunday, December 30, 2007 by BX | Discussion: WinCustomize News
End of an era as come as AOL officially retires Netscape,the browser that brought World Wide Web to computer screens in every corner of the planet and connecting us like never before.
Leading news website Betanews has a detailed report on the sad dismissal of the web browser which had played a major in shaping the today's internet.
March 31, 2008 will mark 10 years since the Netscape development team opened up the source code to the browser that ushered in the Internet era. With its acquisition of Netscape in 1999, AOL continued that effort and helped launch the Mozilla Foundation into an organization that has taken on Microsoft and shaped the Web as we know it today.
As we look forward to Mozilla's 10th anniversary, we can also look back and appreciate the Netscape, the browser that helped kick-start the commercial web.
Reply #2 Sunday, December 30, 2007 4:30 AM
Until MS came up with a useful IE, Netscape was the one and only out there. ... mais non, it just comes to my mind: There was a browser called "Lynx", text-based, couldn't show images. And there was a small community of Netscape-haters: Who needs this needless multimedia-crap, a text-only website is enough for everyone ...
Reply #3 Sunday, December 30, 2007 12:15 PM
no, it wasn't. netscape didn't get bloated until after several version iterations and competition with IE.
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Reply #10 Sunday, December 30, 2007 6:12 PM
one of mine too... loved that damn browser...
Netscape...aww mmkthxbye.
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Reply #12 Sunday, December 30, 2007 7:47 PM
Where? I used it back in the day also, but I think it was earlier this year I tried to find Neoplanet with no luck.
elvee tries looking again.
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Reply #1 Sunday, December 30, 2007 3:26 AM