The web browser that gave many of us our first taste of the web will be shutdown come Feb. 1. Most people stopped using the browser years ago, in favor of IE or Firefox, but in its heyday it was the best of the best. We won't miss Netscape, but we do owe the developers a debt of gratitude for showing us how beautiful the web could be by creating what we now know of as javascript and contributing to the development of CSS.
Saturday, December 29, 2007
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I do have a few friends who still use Netscape, but even the die-hards regularly switch to Firefox (the basis of Netscape), IE, and Safari at need. Netscape was truly an anachronism, and I doubt many will mourn its passing.
I also suspect in 2 years, AOL will "resurrect" it again, when the marketing wonks again need a reason to distract stockholders from its slow death spiral.
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