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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: 30 Years Of Netscape
Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2024 19:35:38 -0000 (UTC)
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Mosaic Communications Corporation (later Netscape Communications) was
founded 30 years ago. They were brash enough to thumb their noses at
Microsoft. And if you remember that time, Microsoft was indeed slow to
appreciate the importance of the then-up-and-coming Internet. Bill
Gates famously put out a book called “The Way Ahead”, talking about
how he saw the future of computing evolving, and he didn’t even
mention the Internet, except in a hastily-added postscript.

But once the changes in the marketplace became evident, the
supercarrier did manage to turn itself around. And Microsoft fought
back, by both fair means and foul, to keep Windows not only the
dominant desktop platform, but the dominant platform for consuming
Internet content.

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.

<https://www.zdnet.com/home-and-office/networking/how-netscape-lives-on-30-years-of-shaping-the-web-open-source-and-business/>