Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder2.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Alan K." Newsgroups: comp.misc,alt.comp.software.firefox Subject: Re: 30 Years Of Netscape Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2024 11:47:43 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 29 Message-ID: References: <18051fdb9bfde137$860$2737477$2d54864@news.newsdemon.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2024 17:47:44 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="93e579d941750ef149ebeb51abbcb6e7"; logging-data="1704287"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+e8cVShp54I3OAN8+ONBfAa2nu02xjvHQ=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:Qjh+ycPZ1/7UIKNTyn+y0zEm3pk= In-Reply-To: <18051fdb9bfde137$860$2737477$2d54864@news.newsdemon.com> Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 2179 On 11/5/24 11:37 AM, Francis Strelok wrote: > Newyana2 wrote: >> On 11/4/2024 2:35 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: >> >>> One important thing Netscape did before going completely defunct was >>> to open-source the browser. That lives on today (after a fashion) as >>> the SeaMonkey browser, but a trimmed-down adaptation of the code, >>> jettisoning all the non-browser-related functionality, found new life >>> as Firefox. >> >> For anyone who's interested, there's a good documentary about >> the final days of Netscape. It's called Code Rush, available at both >> youtube and archive.org. >> >> This link should work to download it: >> >> https://ia801809.us.archive.org/6/items/code-rush-2000/Code%20Rush%20%282000%29-Decombed.mp4 >> > > Oooh, thank you for linking that! > Here is youtube of it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Q7FTjhvZ7Y I think, at least the first 20 seconds is identical -- Linux Mint 22, Cinnamon 6.2.9, Kernel 6.8.0-48-generic Thunderbird 128.4.1esr, Mozilla Firefox 132.0.1 Alan K.