i can't stop laughing at the thought of someone seeing #kiki's NCSA Mosaic/Netscape 1.x theme in 2025 and wondering if the entire world wide web was entirely grey in 1994.
(it was)
if this doesn't do violence to the idea of software preservation, i don't know what could
Remember "#groupware"?
According to #Netscape, that was basically email, calendar, address book, newsgroups, and a bespoke audio/video/chat client all bolted into a single app. https://muffin.industries/@wayback_exe/114178681504078070
In 1994, the World Wide Web became the default multimedia channel of the Internet. With the launch of Netscape Navigator and early websites like Yahoo! and HotWired, the Web achieved lift-off. https://cybercultural.com/p/internet-1994/ #InternetHistory #Netscape
Old geeks may remember paying for #Netscape once upon a time, although it wasn't required.
If #Mozilla charged for a "clean" version of #Firefox without all the #enshittification, would you pay?
@adingbatponder @jstaeck @manankanchu @zerodreamer
Das Verfahren. Und das wurde mit dem Chip umgesetzt.
Aber darum geht es nicht.
Immer mehr #Opensource setzt auf Patenten auf.
Damit macht sich Opensource abhängig.
Gibt es erst genügend Geräte bzw Anwendungen, kann der Patentinhaber alles bestimmen was er möchte
Oder sogar ganz zerstören.
Das nennt sich #EEE
Embrace, extend and extinguish > annehmen, erweitern und auslöschen.
#Netscape ist daran sogar gestorben.
The early Web —
There was a social-norm among some of the people on the early Web, that you (the creator of web-site or web-page) should never set the text-color or background-color of a web-page.
That the user should decide what text-color and background-color web-pages are displayed in in their web-browsers.
That gave the early web a distinctive look (due to the default text-color and background-color) — black text on a grey background.
#000000 #F0F0F0 #Netscape #WorldWideWeb
I remember the HTTP "Refresh" header from the old Netscape FishCam, from the early days of the Web.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Refresh
Although did it use the HTTP "Refresh" header of the <meta http-equiv="refresh"/> version of it.
Apparently, the "Refresh" header never made it into any specification. But is a standard none-the-less (since it is commonly implemented).
Leider habe ich Probleme mit dem #eGOV Login zum #Swissmint Shop, also habe ich mich an den Support gewendet.
Antwort "Haben Sie es mit dem Internet Explorer versucht? Meinerseits konnte ich mich ohne Probleme in mein Konto einloggen."
Ich finde es schade, dass man immer den neuen Trends folgen muss. Mein #Windows 3.11 mit #netscape funktioniert sonst noch wunderbar.
Yo no quiero que muera #Firefox
El guardían de los docs, heredero de #Netscape y rey de las dev tools, innovador de #JavaScript , el vengador que mató a #InternetExplorer y la más ligera y personalizable ventana a internet ahora.
No quiero. Lo quiero mucho 
Zorro no te vayas.
Like many back in the '90s, I had assumed that Netscape were the lesser evil in the browser wars.
I never thought I'd say this, but thank you Bill Gates for creating Internet Explorer.
Sure, it was a buggy malware magnet from the ancient masters of tech monopoly capitalism.
But it turns out the guy who ran Netscape is a bigger prick than we realised.
In hindsight, trying to put him out of business was completely and totally justified.
It’s been 30 years since Netscape Navigator 1.0 was released and 10 years since I wrote about it being 20 years.
https://adrianroselli.com/2014/12/20-years-since-netscape-navigator-10.html
Are you old enough to remember when what in now called the Mozilla Firefox web-browser was called — Phoenix?
HTTPS including TLS 1.3 and SSH2. Configuring #Classilla with Crypto Ancienne (https://www.floodgap.com/software/classilla/carl.html) to work as HTTPS proxy.
And doing so with the use of #ssheven (https://github.com/cy384/ssheven) to ssh into a local server.
Now I have a #MacOS9 laptop to replace my #MacMIniG4 as my "Classic Mac" so the mini can do new adventures with #MorphOS. But first I will spend some time setting up MachTen.
@ethauvin Javascript was pitched as based on Java and could only be called Javascript because Netscape took a license from Sun. https://www.atsc.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Netscape.pdf One can own a trademark (and prove use of it before the PTO) even when it is used only by a licensee #deno #Sun #Netscape #javascript #oracle
TIL: Apparently, Netscape has resurfaced as a Windows-only Chromium reskin.
Warning: I haven’t tested this. I wouldn’t use it. You shouldn't use it. Frankly, no one should use it.
Video: https://youtu.be/xI7i5UQvbMo
Original "3am" post by @mjdxp: https://labyrinth.zone/notice/Ao5tchJJV34JPV46EK
Reason to celebrate: the email client #Thunderbird celebrates its 20th birthday. Please remember the parent #Netscape-Suite too. It's been 30 years.
20 Years of Thunderbird
https://updates.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/128.0/nov24/
@sjvn I was one of those who used Netscape, I like the news reader that was built in, until they change the design in version 1.2.
The only thing I do miss from those days is #Netscape Search, think that one was superior to all modern search engines, which more likely give you shit result than what you really want.
I do still have my old ~./netscape directory.
