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R.I.P. Netscape

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eWEEK Linux; By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols 		Mail this story
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Netscape, the Web browser that opened up not only the Web, but the entire Internet to mass use, is dead. It died after a long decline caused by its murderer, Microsoft's Internet Explorer. It was only 15 years ago that only a handful of nerds knew about the Internet and the Web. Even after CIX (Commercial Internet Exchange) opened up the Internet for business in 1991, only the kinds of people who now use Linux were using the Internet.

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techiem2 ·
Not a bad overview of events.

I do find it quite amusing that the sidebar has an announcement for a ZD eseminar on Dec 19..... You'd think a Tech Publisher would keep their own adds up to date....

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