AOL acquires Netscape in $4.2B deal (1998)

Post by MiddleEndian » Sun, Nov 25, 2018, 5:52 PM UTC

megablast wrote: post #54

dageshi wrote: post #51

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I don't recall precisely when but I do recall Netscape taking FOREVER to load, like you'd click on it and it'd take 10 seconds or more (that's what it felt like) to load. It'd sit on a splash screen telling you all the crap it was loading. IE at the time just loaded like a flash in comparison. That was ultimately why I recall switching to IE at the time, nowadays there's no browser with that level of annoyance I don'…

Well sure, IE loaded all that crap when windows loaded.

Post by tinus_hn » Sun, Nov 25, 2018, 6:34 PM UTC

zeroname wrote: post #40

asadotzler wrote: post #11

Good contemporary read: https://www-archive.mozilla.org/fear.html jwz was right, the source code was out there and even though AOL eventually gave up on browser tech, the code lived on to become Firefox, re-igniting competition for web browsers, moving the web platform forward, and providing an independent browser that's beholden to users first.

> ...re-igniting competition for web browsers, moving the web platform forward I fondly remember when the selling point of Firebird/Firefox was that it isn't a bloated, sluggish piece of crap unlike all other major browsers (including Netscape) at the time. Back then, it was still possible to develop a web browser without hundreds of millions of dollars in budget. Fast forward to how the web platform has "progressed"…