No more Netscape
While this does not come as a complete surprise, given that I really don’t think about Netscape anymore, it is still an uncomfortable moment in history. AOL will stop development on the Netscape browser on 2/1/08.
Wow, I remember when I first used Netscape: I had been using Telenet (tab to go from link to link, press enter to click) to navigate the simplistic world of this thing called the Internet (or Information Superhighway if you were a politician). It was great, I could actually look up information without having to wait for a newspaper or call some stupid hotline (remember those?). Nevermind that there wasn’t much content available. It was a small sense of control and freedom. Then… I saw Netscape. Holy cow, this thing actually let you use a mouse to click on links (you didn’t have to tab over every link you didn’t want to click), and, the cool part was this HTML stuff that allowed you to see pictures and different fonts. Ah yes, and the hyper animated gif and zero font control era began. As the Dead said… what a long strange trip its been. My mobile phone does so much more than that today. We’ll miss you Netscape.
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