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- Bukowsky, on 12/28/2007, -8/+297AOL is still around?
- take2, on 12/28/2007, -5/+105Netscape Navigator is still around?
- aAnaRchY, on 12/28/2007, -5/+62Actually the firefox source code comes from Netscape. And now Netscape source code comes from Firefox :)
- inactive, on 12/28/2007, -4/+7didn't they code firefox from the grounds up and not derived from netscape once it became opensource. As far as i recall mozilla has a few staff from netscape but they never used the netscape sourcecode.
- Drahkar, on 12/28/2007, -3/+11Mozilla was the browser base that everyone else copied and deveoped then branched off of. Firefox was a branch off the original Mozilla development. And no, it was never a branch of Netscape.
- aAnaRchY, on 12/28/2007, -1/+9AOL outsourced the Netscape development to a new team (Mozilla) under a new brand. Later, when the outsourced project became superior to the internal one, AOL decided to shut off the internal development and focus on customizing the new project to their needs
- doshindude, on 12/29/2007, -2/+2So Netscape was the original code, which firefox adopted, which Netscape adopted again.
So Netscape adopted themselves.- Drahkar, on 12/29/2007, -0/+7I swear, is there no one on Digg who was using computers and the Internet in the early 90s? Mozilla Mosaic was the very first web browser platform released in 1993. That was developed for an entire year before the first initial release of Netscape. Netscape was released in 1994. IE and all other browsers of the 1995+ took that codebase and created their own offshoot browser platforms. Years go by and Firefox picks up off of Netscape 3.07 the last clean release of Netscape before it was consumed by the horror that is AOL. AOL Kept developing Netscape along the pitted and resource consuming direction they were going as did most others while Firefox went back to basics, using the base code of Netscape 3.07 to create a clean installed platform and develop the codes compliant browser that we have today.
- joshuakuhn, on 12/29/2007, -0/+1Thinking of NCSA Mosaic?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosaic_%28web_browser ... - DeathfireD, on 12/29/2007, -0/+1@ joshuakuhn - ya I think Drahkar mixed them up. Mosaic was different from Mozilla. Mozilla != mosaic.
Heres a visual http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/74 ...
- inactive, on 12/28/2007, -4/+7didn't they code firefox from the grounds up and not derived from netscape once it became opensource. As far as i recall mozilla has a few staff from netscape but they never used the netscape sourcecode.
- stalefries, on 12/29/2007, -5/+4AOL owns Netscape?
- boflaade, on 12/29/2007, -3/+5Yes and your the last to have heard it.
- angrykeyboarder, on 01/03/2008, -0/+1Dude, have you been under a rock for the past 10 years?
- aAnaRchY, on 12/28/2007, -5/+62Actually the firefox source code comes from Netscape. And now Netscape source code comes from Firefox :)
- Ninjab3ar, on 12/28/2007, -7/+18Sadly, yes. And they still charge $25 for dialup. And if you have an alternative broadband service provider, for $5 a month, they can require you to log on through AOL service before using the internetand force you to use their browser.
Gotta love AOL.- Nougat, on 12/28/2007, -1/+28Yes, they still charge $25/mo for dialup. But if you have your own broadband, it's free. It's called "Bring Your Own Access."
Not that I approve of AOL, but the truth is the truth.- tba2287, on 12/28/2007, -1/+7Seems like a waste now that AOL has made most of its useful services free. You can get barebones DSL from AT&T for only $10 a month.
- Nougat, on 12/29/2007, -0/+2There was a time, I'm not sure if it's over or not, where you could buy broadband from AOL for $30/mo. All they did was resell DSL. I think they may have abandoned that for the BYOA thing.
- tba2287, on 12/28/2007, -1/+7Seems like a waste now that AOL has made most of its useful services free. You can get barebones DSL from AT&T for only $10 a month.
- njcarlos, on 12/29/2007, -0/+4From what I recall, they charge $24/mo for dial-up and $14.99/mo for DSL. Verizon DSL, at that. Yes, they are a broadband reseller. No, they won't contact dial-up users to notify them of the lower-price higher-quality alternative.
- Nougat, on 12/28/2007, -1/+28Yes, they still charge $25/mo for dialup. But if you have your own broadband, it's free. It's called "Bring Your Own Access."
- inactive, on 12/28/2007, -8/+1EH?? ...oh well.
- andrgo, on 12/29/2007, -6/+1Nutscrape, I remember that crap in school, they had it installed on their ancient 1-piece Macintrash computers.
- angrykeyboarder, on 01/03/2008, -0/+1Actually, you might be surprised. AOL.com these days is an excellent portal. The "New AOL" is something they should have done years ago. As true "portals" go (e.g.Yahoo!, Lycos, MSN) it may very well end up being the best overall in the not too distant future.
- take2, on 12/28/2007, -5/+105Netscape Navigator is still around?
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