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[–] khannie 11 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (5 children)

Yeah it went Mosaic, Netscape, Firefox iirc.

Edit: And I think Netscape was a full rewrite as mosaic was owned by the university it was originally coded in, again iirc. That was a LONG time ago.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Netscape was Firefox? Somehow I never learned that. I fuckin loved the little space animation when a page was loading.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

That's because it's not true. Firefox was first called firebird for a brief time... Otherwise its most closely related to the Mozilla browser... Netscape and mosaic aren't even related to each other... I don't know what this guy is smoking.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

Netscape was my first browser on the beige apple desktops in the elementary school computer lab. I knew about it going on to become Firefox but not of anything before that. I still miss some aspects of the internet of that time.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

So long ago that I had to go and use on a Sun workstation in the machine room because it wasn't available for windows yet!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Mosaic, Netscape, Mozilla, Firefox

[–] marker2002 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] khannie 2 points 11 months ago

Wow. That's some blast from the past.