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Subject: Browsers ....

TallPockets opened this issue on Nov 27, 2007 · 24 posts


AnnieD posted Tue, 27 November 2007 at 7:12 PM

It used to be called Netscape Communicator..and it was the best browser out there in the 90s..then Microsoft started making IE better and the Netscape guys sold out to AOL and the rest is history as they say...
There was a time when I would not use anything else..it had everything including a WYSIWYG web page builder in it.  I built lots of web pages with it.
During the 90s there was a thing on the net that everyone (us oldtimers) called the "browser wars".  We used to put little animations on our pages of Netscape shooting lightning bolts at IE..lol
When it became apparent to me that the new owners were loading it up with crap and not really making the code better..I finally went to IE and I've got to say that at least Gates did put the technology into his browser that was necessary to stay competitive.
Half the ppl now who knock IE still remember the Netcape Communicator.  It was also called the Netscape Navigator..I don't know what they call it now.

 

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