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- sassyt, on 03/01/2008, -5/+174I remember Netscape quite well actually! It was my preferred browser for a while... until I completely switched to IE... and after which I then completely switched to FF!
- hamidrezan, on 03/01/2008, -3/+115but it's still alive... FF is the best thing for remembering Netscape.
- inactive, on 03/01/2008, -2/+109I would spend many hours watching that comet or whatever it was fly over that giant N. It was something that helped passed the time before the naked woman finished loading.
- tehbeermang, on 03/01/2008, -8/+67Someone should buy the name and port a Mozilla build to it.
- doshindude, on 03/01/2008, -4/+60Good riddance...I'm sick of Dreamweaver telling me that my web pages won't work in Navigator due to unsupported tags.
- evernerve, on 03/01/2008, -2/+52Same path here. When Netscape began to suck, IE ruled for a while. When web standards became all the rage, IE sucked more than ever and then came Firefox. And I never looked back.
- KibibyteBrain, on 03/01/2008, -0/+42Kind of both ways. It played more like:
1) Netscape creates Gecko and bases browser on it
2) Netscape opensources Gecko/core as Mozilla
3) Mozilla becomes better than the actual Netscape
4) Netscape itself abandoned and is built on top of Mozilla project builds
4 has been the case for years; its just mozilla/seamonkey with a netscape skin. Now they are just ending with branded browser, probably because firefox/mozilla have more market recognition than netscape at this point. - Zippo, on 03/01/2008, -4/+43< BLINK > < /BLINK >
- Misinformant, on 03/01/2008, -0/+37It was still alive?
- jstem1994, on 03/01/2008, -3/+33My very first browser was Netscape 2.0 Gold, if I remember right, in 1996.
My little ISP had to put it in my account to download so I could see this thing called the Internet. (I've never liked IE.) - mareacaspica, on 03/01/2008, -1/+29those were the days
- jah008, on 03/01/2008, -6/+33All hail firefox!
- inactive, on 03/01/2008, -2/+26Couldn't they have sold it to somebody, Anybody else? I know that Netscape is on its deathbed, but can't show some respect? It had to be AOL...
- Brasky, on 03/01/2008, -0/+24Netscape was great until they changed to "Communicator" (4.7 i think?) Talk about ***** bloat....
- userini, on 03/01/2008, -1/+22[insert generic comment about real webmasters using notepad]
- Marlon, on 03/01/2008, -2/+23Goodbye old friend. Before FF in the old days, you were my best alternative.
- DarkerMaster, on 03/01/2008, -11/+31Good Riddance...
- HerrEisenheim, on 03/01/2008, -2/+20Netscape invented JavaScript. Respekt.
- inactive, on 03/01/2008, -4/+20lol ah yes old school pron. GIFs ftw.
digg me down, i dont care. - HigherLogic, on 03/01/2008, -1/+16A little more history behind that, from Wikipedia:
"JavaScript was originally developed by Brendan Eich of Netscape under the name Mocha, later LiveScript, and finally renamed to JavaScript. The change of name from LiveScript to JavaScript roughly coincided with Netscape adding support for Java technology in its Netscape Navigator web browser. JavaScript was first introduced and deployed in the Netscape browser version 2.0B3 in December of 1995. The naming has caused confusion, giving the impression that the language is a spinoff of Java and has been characterized by many as a marketing ploy by Netscape to give JavaScript the cachet of what was then the hot new web-programming language."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Javascript
RIP NN - IggyPop, on 03/01/2008, -0/+14Toodaloo, I'd say I'll miss you, but I'd be lying.
- daliminator, on 03/01/2008, -5/+19I think it's the other way around, actually... Netscape created Gecko.
- trunkster, on 03/01/2008, -5/+18Netscape will always be remembered. Like with a king, it's offspring will rule.
- Zippo, on 03/01/2008, -0/+13The circle of life.
- inactive, on 03/01/2008, -2/+14Before opera/firefox all i used was netscape, even in the times of IE5, or IE6. Navigator was a great browser, AOL bought it and tained it, those bastards. And they also destroyed icq =( i still use it though.
- Shaman760, on 03/01/2008, -1/+12Hopefully that bane of the internet AOL will soon follow suit.
- stygiansonic, on 03/01/2008, -2/+13Same here. Those were the days, I remember opening up Netscape's home page (the default start page) and being amazed that I was actually on the Internet. (All through a 28.8Kbps modem, no less)
- darkciti2, on 03/01/2008, -1/+12It's called Seamonkey.
- mark076h, on 03/01/2008, -3/+12Firefox FTW
- barktwiggs, on 03/01/2008, -4/+13Goodnight, sweet prince!
- inactive, on 03/01/2008, -3/+12A lot of idiots rip on DreamWeaver, but what they don't understand is that even being a HTML expert, DreamWeaver STILL lets you code by hand, and then makes large websites easy to maintain with built in FTP operations, PHP/ASP testing servers, side wide changes, and templates. It makes maintaining a large website a HELL of a lot easier and less time consuming.
Time is money, you ignorant slobs. When it comes to working on the web pages in your career, you will learn that having the right tools saves you a LOT of time and helps you earn MORE money. Your welfare check cashing ass can't afford the tools, so you can only mock those who've made an investment to use them. - tavisjohn, on 03/01/2008, -1/+9I designed my first website with Netscape Gold... Back then it was a good browser. However it has been going downhill.
- sexybobo, on 03/01/2008, -1/+9real webmasters use butterflies
http://xkcd.com/378/ - noctu, on 03/01/2008, -3/+11you sound like you just fell off the AOL truck speaking of AOL it wasn't bloated until AOL got its hand om it.
- deadmantalkin, on 03/01/2008, -4/+12netscape was a fine browser, i always preferred it over IE and then FF came along
- MonTemplar, on 03/01/2008, -0/+8Same here... I was using Netscape from the early betas up to 1.2. Shortly after Windows 95 came out, they announced the beta programme for IE 2 (which really was a clone of Navigator and Mosaic back then, even supporting the same plugins... I think they finally phased that out when IE 4 came out), and I found that to be a lot faster, so I stuck with it. Around the time that IE 6 started to really start getting hammered by exploits, I started to use the 0.7 version of Firefox (I think this was when they finally settled on a name that no one else claimed ownership on :) ). For me, it wasn't so much that Firefox was faster, but the fact that you could extend and customise it in ways that are still impossible with IE. I'm typing this in Firefox 2, and looking forward to seeing the new features in version 3. I do have IE 7 installed, but I only use that for Windows Update occasionally and to connect to work to do remote server maintenance at the weekend.
- dt3k, on 03/01/2008, -2/+9RIP
- darkciti2, on 03/01/2008, -1/+8It seems to live on in Seamonkey...
- techguy10, on 03/01/2008, -1/+8Damnit, doesn't everyone who is lamenting Netscape's end realize that it really ended whenever AOL bought the rights to it? Whatever current version it was is just it in name only, Firefox is still the continuation of the project, just under a different name, no reason to be sad over this when its only hurting AOL, rather be happy that they failed in making money off it.
- CarzorStelatis, on 03/01/2008, -0/+7Yeah - software should be released and then not updated with new features for five years, just like IE!
- cr3ative, on 03/01/2008, -1/+8It was a triumph. :(
- quazywabbit, on 03/01/2008, -10/+16Netscape has been based off Mozilla for some time now and uses the gecko engine.
- jim3008, on 03/01/2008, -1/+7IMHO, FF 3 beta 3 kickass.
- maexus, on 03/01/2008, -1/+7We aren't Mozilla developers. Wait a second, this isn't mozilla.org!
- Kwipper, on 03/01/2008, -1/+7Goodbye Netscape, your spirit will live on... in Firefox.
- Philbert, on 03/01/2008, -0/+5I didn't even know it still existed. I don't think I've ever seen anyone hit my website with it. I always did like their logo with the ship's wheel and the stars that went across while a page was loading.
- cr3ative, on 03/01/2008, -1/+6Yep.
- reticulate, on 03/01/2008, -0/+5Alas poor Navigator, we knew ye well.
Also, I remember using it back when IE was more or less a straight hack of Mosaic. Get off my lawn, etc. - mrjit, on 03/01/2008, -1/+5I think you mean charging 39.95/49.95 for a web browser. That killed it.
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