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| From | ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) |
|---|---|
| Subject | Re: 30 Years Of Netscape |
| Newsgroups | alt.comp.software.firefox, comp.misc, alt.comp.software.seamonkey, alt.comp.software.thunderbird |
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| Date | 2024-11-04 23:47 +0000 |
Cross-posted to 4 groups.
I still use SeaMonkey that was based on Netscape's design (Communicator)!
In alt.comp.software.firefox Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
> Mosaic Communications Corporation (later Netscape Communications) was
> founded 30 years ago. They were brash enough to thumb their noses at
> Microsoft. And if you remember that time, Microsoft was indeed slow to
> appreciate the importance of the then-up-and-coming Internet. Bill
> Gates famously put out a book called ???The Way Ahead???, talking about
> how he saw the future of computing evolving, and he didn???t even
> mention the Internet, except in a hastily-added postscript.
> But once the changes in the marketplace became evident, the
> supercarrier did manage to turn itself around. And Microsoft fought
> back, by both fair means and foul, to keep Windows not only the
> dominant desktop platform, but the dominant platform for consuming
> Internet content.
> One important thing Netscape did before going completely defunct was
> to open-source the browser. That lives on today (after a fashion) as
> the SeaMonkey browser, but a trimmed-down adaptation of the code,
> jettisoning all the non-browser-related functionality, found new life
> as Firefox.
> <https://www.zdnet.com/home-and-office/networking/how-netscape-lives-on-30-years-of-shaping-the-web-open-source-and-business/>
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