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February 01, 2008
The end to the beginning
The first time I ever went on the internet it at a college that a friend of mine worked at sometime in the mid 90's, we were there for a D&D game.
I opened up a program I'd never seen before and low and behold the New York times appeared on my screen. The Times doesn't get my blood flowing anymore but that first use of Netscape navigator was really something.
Well those days are over as Netscape is as of today no longer supported.
February 1, marks the demise of Netscape Navigator, the first commercial web browser.Navigator will continue to function should you happen to have a recent copy stashed away. But America Online, which has been Netscape’s guardian during its long, downward slide in popularity, will no longer support the browser and will stop releasing updates. Support for all versions of the software will be off-loaded to the Netscape community forum. Netscape.com will continue to live on as a web portal.
It was once top dog but Microsoft and Internet Explorer defeated it. The successor to it Mozilla/firefox is slowing growing again but Netscape itself is done. Just for the fun of it I installed it today for that reason.
Meanwhile Google is next in Microsoft's sights as it is looking at Yahoo:
Microsoft's audacious attempt to buy Yahoo, spelled out in an unsolicited offer announced Friday, shows just how much Google threatens the world's largest software maker's grip on how people interact with computers.For Yahoo, the bid represents another painful reminder of how missed opportunities and mismanagement combined to open the door for Google to supplant it as the Internet's main gateway, decimating its stock price in the process.
Google, be afraid, be very afraid.
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Posted by Peter at February 1, 2008 03:48 PM