#netscape — Public Fediverse posts
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I've succesfully compiled Netscape 3.0.2 on a 64 Debian
https://www.reddit.com/r/netscape/comments/1ve7wkm/ive_succesfully_compiled_netscape_302_on_a_64/
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@thomholwerda Give me the old #Netscape Navigator mail design and I'd be happy.
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@aral And positng as a fake #Netscape Navigator account 🙀 @jon @Vivaldi @NetscapeNavigator
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By winter every iPhone and Android phone will be an agentic system.
Siri AI and Gemini will be agents able to reach into your emails, docs, and apps, all using Gemini.
Google will be Internet Explorer while Anthropic, OpenAI, and Grok are Netscape.
Distribution is everything.
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I’ve been using #firefox for… decades? Before that I used Firebird, and before that Phoenix, and before that #Mozilla, and before that #Netscape Communicator, and before that Netscape Navigator.
And yet, somehow the most consistent aspect of those 30+ years is that the executives in charge are always dolts!
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Good read: OpenAI = the next Netscape?
Side question: How many of the users on techhub.social were even born when NetScape was about the rule the world? 😜
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Agree the Netscape story is a "warning label"... to my eye what is happening now is two fold:1) a solitary focus on building giant frontier (do it all) LLMs by US based providers is likely a path to doom.
2) what is also needed are smaller/agile/cheaper to operate "build for purpose" LLMs tailored to ... USE cases users actually CARE about.
The big gun LLM builders better figure out the desired uses cases FAST - or risk having China eat their lunch, cuz China is more focused on putting AI models to work solving real problems vs. building the biggest most bad-ass model.
The "layers of power" is a good angle to consider. It is not a given that NVIDIA can be successful moving "up the stack" and the examples here leave out a core wild card in this mix - China as noted above. www.techradar.com/pro/why-openai-could-become-the-next-netscape #AI #China #USA #LLMs #FrontierLLMs #Netscape #Microsoft #Nvidia #OpenAI #Internet #Browser
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Dans une scène de la saison 1 de #stargatesg1 , un magnifique gros plan sur un #Netscape Communicator sous #windows 3 connecté à "Internet", comme le prouve l'URL qui commence par file:///C:/http/www 😁
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If it was fully libre, I'd give it a go (former Opera & Vivaldi user).
Of course, there'd be people reflexively complaining of "bloat" but I remember people saying that about Opera Presto even though it was smaller, quicker & used less RAM than Phoenix / Firebird / Firefox.
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Bring Back Netscape
When I was younger, I had an early introduction to the internet thanks to AOL. I found out I could use Netscape instead of AOL Desktop to get on the real internet instead of the KOL (Kids AOL) portal. Netscape didn't stick around much longer after that, so I ended up using Firefox as my main browser and have been since. That said, I have experimented with many many browsers in my life, ranging from Opera and Maxthon to Zen and Floorp. Most recently, I've started trying out Vivaldi and aside […] -
Instalei Netscape aqui só pra testar um negócio, o mais fofo é que ele recomenda Flock como alternativa. Eu era apaixonada pelo navegador Flock.
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🚀 Ah yes, the profound revelation that software development got *faster* after #Netscape, as if the internet needed another reason to increase our collective #ADHD 📱. Let's all thank a "documentary crew" for solving the great mystery of why Jamie Zawinski was fashionably late, again. 🙄
https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/the-lasting-influence-of-netscape-time/ #softwaredevelopment #internetculture #documentary #JamieZawinski #HackerNews #ngated -
My first real web browser (not Prodigy, Compuserve, etc.) was Mosaic Netscape 0.9
#Web #Browser #WebBrowser #Prodigy #Compuserve #Mosaic #Netscape #MosaicNetscape
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#retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #search #searchengine #frogfind #sgi #sgiindy #indy #irix #netscape #navigator
Catch of the Day: A visit from the SGI graphics forge! 🦖
Hey Retro Fans!
While many of us still had gray towers sitting under our desks in the late 90s, the world of high-end graphics looked completely different. And today, we had a visitor straight from that world:
Netscape Navigator 4.75C-SGI on an SGI IRIX system!
This is absolutely mind-blowing! SGI (Silicon Graphics, Inc.) built workstations that were as expensive as sports cars and as powerful as mainframes. Whether it was "Jurassic Park," "Terminator 2," or the architecture of the Nintendo 64—all of it was developed on SGI machines running the IRIX operating system.
The fact that today, in 2026, someone fires up their SGI Indy, Indigo, or perhaps even a massive Octane workstation, launches the Netscape 4.75C customized exclusively for IRIX, and browses the web on FrogFind simply goes to show: True hardware legends never die.
A reverent greeting to the lucky owner of this UNIX dream machine!
Your FrogFind Team 🐸
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#retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #search #searchengine #frogfind #netscape #gold #apple #macintosh #mac #navigator
Catch of the Day: All that glitters is Netscape Gold! ✨
Hey Retro Fans!
While many of us struggle with gigabyte-heavy browsers today, our bouncer welcomed true web royalty last night at 2:30 AM:Netscape Navigator 3.01Gold on a Mac!
Who remembers the "Gold" edition? Back in 1996, this was the absolute premium standard. Netscape 3.0 Gold didn't just bring improved JavaScript support and LiveAudio; it was the first to feature an integrated WYSIWYG HTML editor ("Netscape Composer"). You could view websites and build them in basically the same window—a dream come true for 90s webmasters!
The fact that this roughly 30-year-old browser is still exploring the web from a classic Mac today and using our search engine is simply wonderful, and exactly the reason FrogFind exists.
Stay retro and surf in gold!
Your FrogFind Team 🐸 -
If I recall correctly, it was Akkana Peck @akkana who first introduced me to Python, probably around 1998 or 1997 (so something in the neighborhood of Python v1.5) while working together at Netscape (I had a different name back then). **That** turned out to be a life-changing event; so thanks, Akkana!
