It was a magical time, hearing the scrambling sound of your phone line connecting you to the Internet. Launching Netscape and staring at the throbber animation while...
  • palordrolap@fedia.io
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    23 days ago

    And here I was about to say that it had simply become Mozilla Firefox.

    I guess I pruned my knowledge (read: forgot) at some point because I know I went from using Netscape to the Mozilla Application Suite as my browser of choice, and then ultimately onto Firefox when that died. (Firefox and Thunderbird were well established and Seamonkey was still in its infancy, otherwise I probably would have switched to that instead.)

    Looking at the facts, the AOL buy-out is what must have got me to switch to MAS.

  • vxx@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    22 days ago

    Netscape got a serious case of Windows’ forceful and illegal monopolisation of Internet Explorer.

  • eleitl@lemm.eeEnglish
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    22 days ago

    I used to download the source tarball for each new version and build it on the SGI Indy.

    • xylogx@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      22 days ago

      Yes, but no.

      The source code for Netscape Navigator was open-sourced and has become Mozilla Firefox. The company Netscape is now a mostly defunct brand while Mozilla is a non-profit, public benefit company in service to the Mozilla Foundation, and the Mozilla community.