In 1995, a Netscape employee wrote a hack in 10 days that now runs the Internet
Thirty years later, JavaScript is the glue that holds the interactive web together, warts and all.
#netscape
The breakup of #Netscape was, I think, one of the worst things to happen to the Internet. There was a time when Netscape Communicator and Netscape SuiteSpot were the best in their categories, and that's why I chose to become a certified Netscape Solutions Expert in the late 1990s.
I was so hopeful when Apple released their Network Servers running AIX, because for the first time, I could run SuiteSpot on Apple hardware.
Sadly, that initiative ended up going nowhere.
Nothing good will come of this
#netscape #windows95 #retrocomputing
Are you old enough to remember the Netscape navigator? It was 1994 and it revolutionized the way people used the Internet. Before that were libraries mainly used by academics.
https://negativepid.blog/marc-andreessen-and-the-web-browser/
https://negativepid.blog/marc-andreessen-and-the-web-browser/
I miss #Netscape.
Episódio 170 – RetroRetrospectiva 2025 – Parte B
https://retropolis.com.br/2025/12/17/episodio-170-parte-b/
#Podcast #6502 #AlAlamiah #Altair8800 #Amiga1000 #AmstradCpc6128 #Apple #AppleIII #arm #AtariSt #Brasil #BSDDay #Byte #C #Commodore128 #CorelDRAW #Criptografia #Delphi #DNS #E3 #efemrides #Embratel #fujitsu #GameWatch #GEM #Intel80386 #IntelignciaArtificial #Java #LeiDeMoore #MicrosoftBob #MSX #MSX2 #MSXJa #MSXRio #MSXSP #MySQL #MysteryHouse #namco #Netscape #Nintendo #NORC #Novell #
Sentimental brainblitz. Does #Netscape still exist? Somehow?
I've been thinking about this for some years. As others have noted, the problem is that the market is accustomed to browsers being "free", ever since #Microsoft illegally leveraged their OS #monopoly to destroy #Netscape by driving their income to (essentially) zero.
I started thinking about it in terms of how I support various creators for small amounts with monthly #subscriptions. Could you fund reasonable #maintenance and #development of #Firefox purely based on low-cost subs from users? Bigger donations from companies or billionaires would be welcome, but it would need to be sustainable on its own first.
Development wouldn't have to be as expensive as what #Mozilla does (which is mostly counter-productive anyway...).
There are still millions of people - more than a hundred million, apparently - who use Firefox, and many of those are more knowledgeable about and involved with open-source #software. They're more likely to appreciate that funding development is the key to keeping Firefox relevant, and keeping the "AI" / #LLM / #advertising / #surveillance out of the #browser.
Some people are starting to pay a few bucks a month just for a search engine subscription. Why not pay for your browser? For many people, it's the software they use more than everything else put together. For some people, it's the only software they ever use.
I'd pay $2 a month to support my browser, if it kept it safe from <handwave> all that </handwave>.
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更新されたよ、見に来てね!→ 【ダイジェスト版】#Linux カーネルに #Rust 本格導入!? 伝説のブラウザ #Netscape の遺産 開発環境は #Immutable へ 12月15日(月) #News #kernel https://www.youtube.com/shorts/MwJBtZBKUkQ
更新されたよ、見に来てね!→ 【ダイジェスト版】#Linux カーネルに #Rust 本格導入!? 伝説のブラウザ #Netscape の遺産 開発環境は #Immutable へ 12月15日(月) #News #kernel https://www.youtube.com/shorts/MwJBtZBKUkQ
更新されたよ、見に来てね!→ #Linux カーネルに #Rust 本格導入!? 伝説のブラウザ #Netscape の遺産 開発環境は #Immutable へ 12月15日(月) #News #kernel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOUnODDKYi0
更新されたよ、見に来てね!→ #Linux カーネルに #Rust 本格導入!? 伝説のブラウザ #Netscape の遺産 開発環境は #Immutable へ 12月15日(月) #News #kernel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOUnODDKYi0
Managed to get Slackware 4.0 running in 86Box with the same specs as my Slackware 8.1 install from yesterday.
For this one, pfetch just segfaulted, so I had to write up my own janky little fetch script. If anyone's interested, I can clean it up and share it even though it's outdone by basically every other fetch script on Earth. All you'd have to do is swap in your own logo.
Michael Burry, famed for "The Big Short," warns OpenAI is on track for a Netscape-style collapse, citing rapid cash burn and questioning the AI sector's mega-IPO ambitions.
#YonhapInfomax #MichaelBurry #OpenAI #Netscape #CashBurn #MegaIPO #Economics #FinancialMarkets #Banking #Securities #Bonds #StockMarket
https://en.infomaxai.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=94498
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