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Re: The lasting influence of Netscape Time

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Post by autoexec » Wed, May 20, 2026, 8:00 AM UTC

lacewing wrote: post #25

cube00 wrote: post #14

Jamie Zawinski at the end of the Code Rush doco: We're at the beginning of an industry and who knows where that industry's going to go? This could all turn into television again. It could be controlled by a small number of companies who decide what we see and hear. And there's a lot of precedent for that. While you may say it's not television because we have content creators now, most of the mainstream consumption is…

> While you may say it's not television because we have content creators now What's the difference? There are hundreds of millions of people watching a relatively small number of wealthy creators who need to cater to advertisers and follow strict platform rules or else they get the boot. We even have celebrity gossip and controversies surrounding them. We've recreated the exact thing we've been fighting.

I don't know how much "we" recreated it as opposed to small number of platforms creators are stuck using. Youtube sure didn't start out that way.

Re: The lasting influence of Netscape Time

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Post by Gravityloss » Wed, May 20, 2026, 8:17 AM UTC

Does anyone know if there's ever been any sort of proper retrospective why the forestry policies of many countries have been so disruptive. Ie supposedly the most organized, high trust, low corruption and scientific societies in the world like Finland and Japan have done some very drastic and unnatural forestry measures that cause effects to this day. It is different than some countries where rampant illegal logging has just destroyed the land, sure. But it's been terrible in other ways. Destruction of biodiversity, destruction of water. In Finland at least the policies have been absolutely forced by law and have sent people to prison and mental institutions. And the land and future generations will suffer for a thousand years. And now some of the policies have been completely reversed - as if nothing had happened. It's this completely parallel bizarre world.

Could we at least look at these tragedies honestly and openly, and learn something from them.

Re: The lasting influence of Netscape Time

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Post by xnx » Tue, May 26, 2026, 9:11 PM UTC

Netscape is such a cautionary tale. Probably the biggest tech fumble of all time. There were dozens of ways Netscape could have been as big as Microsoft or Google, but missed all of them.