This December, if there's one tech New Year's resolution I'd encourage you to have, it's switching to the only remaining ethical web browser, Firefox. According to recent posts on social media, Firefox's market share is slipping. We should not let that happen. There are two main reasons why switchin
  • khannie@lemmy.worldEnglish
    132·
    11 months ago

    Yeah it went Mosaic, Netscape, Firefox iirc.

    Edit: And I think Netscape was a full rewrite as mosaic was owned by the university it was originally coded in, again iirc. That was a LONG time ago.

    • Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      8·
      11 months ago

      Netscape was Firefox? Somehow I never learned that. I fuckin loved the little space animation when a page was loading.

      • NeverNudeNo13@lemmings.worldEnglish
        2·
        11 months ago

        That’s because it’s not true. Firefox was first called firebird for a brief time… Otherwise its most closely related to the Mozilla browser… Netscape and mosaic aren’t even related to each other… I don’t know what this guy is smoking.

    • Grass@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      6·
      11 months ago

      Netscape was my first browser on the beige apple desktops in the elementary school computer lab. I knew about it going on to become Firefox but not of anything before that. I still miss some aspects of the internet of that time.

    • Great Blue HeronEnglish
      3·
      11 months ago

      So long ago that I had to go and use on a Sun workstation in the machine room because it wasn’t available for windows yet!