TechCrunch - A Sad Milestone: AOL To Discontinue Netscape Browser Development
"Please observe a moment of silence for the Netscape browser. Netscape Navigator
, the browser that launched the commercial Internet in October 1994, will die on February 1, 2008. AOL, which acquired Netscape in November 1998 for $4.2 billion, will announce today
In an email exchange yesterday with Tom Drapeau, Director of AOL/Netscape development, he said that only a handful of AOL engineers are still tasked with keeping the browser updated. Most of their efforts have been aimed at creating a Netscape-skinned version of Firefox with the Netscape look and feel.
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And so "Browser War I" is officially and finally over. Goodbye Netscape. The computing world is a better place because of you.
We've all seen thing coming for a long time, but "knowing" and actually seeing it happen is two different things.
Sigh, this makes me feel old. I remember when you couldn't go wrong by picking Netscape as your web server and for the desktop.
Still out with the old and in with the new I guess... ?
always new stuff in, the old stuff does seem to leave rather slowly though. :-)
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