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Bye-Bye Netscape

PostPosted: Thu Feb 28, 2008 11:17 pm
by Frau_Blucher
Saturday is the end of the road for the program that's probably more responsible than any other for us sitting here reading this forum:

http://blog.netscape.com/2007/12/28/end ... -browsers/

I remember being blown away when Andreeson's new program replaced NCSA Mosaic. Who remembers this: [8D]

<img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/2a/Mosaiclogo.jpg">

PostPosted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 12:59 am
by scramjet
True enough about Netscape, but I'm feeling kind of like when I hear about some forgotten actor dying and thinking, "I thought he died a long time ago."

PostPosted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 1:18 am
by Frau_Blucher
[quote][i]Originally posted by scramjet[/i]
<br>True enough about Netscape, but I'm feeling kind of like when I hear about some forgotten actor dying and thinking, "I thought he died a long time ago."
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Hmmm...the Jane Wyman of web browsers??

PostPosted: Sat Mar 01, 2008 4:35 pm
by waldnorm
Its proud child (or is it grandchild after "Mozilla/SeaMonkey"?), FireFox still lives on, and I'm thankful for it--IE7 still has the oddest problems.

PostPosted: Fri Mar 07, 2008 11:50 pm
by deethelurker
The very first time I ever went online I remember using Netscape 2.0. After that I used whatever AOL's proprietary browser was (think it was based on Netscape technology) and then IE, until I discovered/learned what a security hazard that was, and then I switched back to Netscape until that system couldn't handle it anymore, and then after getting a new system altogether I installed Netscape but ended up going for Firefox, which is what I've continued to use to this very day. Amongst all of that (which = a time span of a little over 10 years [God I'm old]) I always had a soft spot in my heart for Netscape and am so super-glad that Firefox is based on it. Farewell, Netscape, you served us well. You may have lost the battle but you've won the war.

PostPosted: Sat Mar 08, 2008 3:26 am
by Bitter Almonds
<p align="justify">Netscape was used at school at uni. Sux it went the way of the HD-DVD[V]

PostPosted: Sat Mar 08, 2008 9:03 am
by obs
I said bye-bye to Netscape after using version 4.0x crasheroo. It took them like six or seven revisions before they finally got it to stop crashing.