What are those black things in front of the packaging?

OH MY GOD i totally remember using that back in the days of dial up .. whoa , i feel old and im just in my late 20's

@Jimbuck: I think they're like, Pokemon cards or some type of collectible token.

That's sad. I blame Safari.

Man, Netscape was such an awful browser.

@SchruteBuck: Blame E.I. instead.

@Jimbuck:
i think they're folded up pieces of paper with the uncompiled code witten on them, and i think you had to flip a bunch of switches to program it into your computer.

@tamoko:
a little lisdexic this morning?

@tamoko: I hate E.I.

the only cool about netscape was the little piston thing on the bottom that said you were connected to the internet or not

@mmplisskin: Is that there so you can tell if your DSL is working?

@jonthomasdesigns: If it makes you feel any better, i'm 19 and I remember mom and dad saying "don't click on the 'e' click on the wheel" Oh the joys of childhood :-'(

So sad. It was much better at rendering pages than I.E. in its hay-day. :( Bring back Mosaic!

@jonthomasdesigns: How do you think I feel, I'm 20 and I remember it.

NN, you will be missed..thanks for giving us an option other than I.E. so many years ago. Firefox FTW!!

I remember in college experiencing the WWW for the first time using MOSAIC web browser. As soon as Netscape came around, EVERYONE was using it. It was so much better.

Netscape's biggest problem, besides Microsoft, was itself. It was just too bloated and big. It bogged down machines, it installed files EVERYWHERE, and it tried to be too much - browser, email client, FTP client, calendar, etc. It just never really ran well.

Netscape Navigator on UIUC's internet backbone in the late 90s...ahh the glory days! When it became 'Communicator' and tried to do your email and all that it started to go downhill for me.

As an aside, those were also the mythical days when Napster was truly awesome. And multiplayer Duke Nukem or Quake, where the difference between a 2, 4 and 8 megabyte video card meant death or glory. On the T-whatever lines at that school. So nice.

But browser haiku
Net Positive convention
Bring back Be O S

hey everyone, remember BEFORE the internet?

that was weird.

arguments about obscure factoids went on for days

all your software came from a physical store on physical disks.

Wait, what the fuck did we use computers for back then? When im at home with no way of hooking my laptop up to the net, sometimes i turn it on, boot it up, stare at it for a minute, then i realize there's nothing to do on it, and I shut it down again.

the good part, though, about the physical distribution only method was people didn't release crappy, half-finished software with the intention of patching it later. When you had to put up the cost up front to stamp out the disks, you better have made DAMN sure the software worked.

I started using Seamonkey, which is a continuation of the all in one suite that Communicator was. It is so much easier to set up multiple profiles than the stupid user swithcing that Microsoft makes you do. My wife and daughter each have their own profile and prefer it over user switching. Everyone in my circle of friends has done away with Windows Mail and IE and uses Seamonkey now...Long live Seamonkey!!

@nutbastard: ah, please don't remind me of that - trying to come across as intelligent was so much more work back then.

@dingus: I remember Netscape being integrated into Mac OS 8. That's the biggest thing on the box (Besides the "8"). I still have my system restore disks from that computer. OS 7.something.

@nutbastard:
hey everyone, remember BEFORE the internet?

Its quite scary indeed, now that I think about it, its kinda hard to imagine using a computer without it nowadays.

hey, today is also D-day for Stage6 as well. Plus its RRSP deadline for Canadians. strange

@Fierock:
I know, stage6 will be missed. I tried very hard to grab all i could, but it looks like i'll have to torrent the rest, with probable mixed results / quality

: (

plus torrents interfere with the xbox at my buddies house, where as single connection downloads don't.

We could all download Netscape and post something. That is if Giz renders correctly. Come to think of it, I don't trust that uninstall. Nm.

Man, we had Prodigy in 1988, AOL until 95, when we got Netcom. We used Quarterdeck Mosaic before I discovered Netscape and the rest is history. If Seamonkey gets RSS support and live bookmarks, I'm totally there :)

Ahh good days... Netscape Navigator and his good fella Trumpet Winsock!!!

Let's have a scavenger hunt people. Let's find web sites that still say "Optimized for Netscape Navigator." I actually found one from the U.S. Senate:
[finance.senate.gov]

@Kered: agreed. But it was a good alternative to IE back in the days.

GOOD RIDDANCE Nutscrape Aggrevator

Wheel of fortune,
Steer a course away from the
right of the might.

Giz should put the Netscape Now! button on the blog to thank one of the pieces of internet history.

I freaking love Frucci haikus

Netscape was the best when I had a Solaris workstation. IE gave up on Unix in 99 but Netscape made it a priority.

i remember the whole netscape 4.x vs IE 4.x battle, back when IE actually meant something other than "windows pack-in".

i guess moz/ff really has completely replaced it's position and purpose at this point though.

I just downloaded 9.0.0.6. The videos at Gizmodo don't work but it sure is fast and it has a spell checker.

@Jimbuck: too funny!

Old internet friend
Fought IE valiantly
Another victim

Old internet friend
Fought IE valiantly
Another victim

Multiple refreshes and still a double post? Seriously?

@Jimbuck:

I believe they are a matching set of promotional drink coasters.

@nutbastard: Yeah. It was a screwed up day.

oh, my long lost youth
and you, who finally saved
me from Prodigy

So long ago. Prodigy way back in the day then some good ol AOL all in one. i miss those little comets flying by a giant N as well... But wait am i the first to comment about opera? sadness

Damned E.I.

E.I.
E.I.O.

can we say that Firefox is Netscape's spiritual successor, at least in opposing IE?

Damn you Microsoft
Damn you all to hell!!!
Via Charlton Heston

Navigator died
You gave me cache and cookies
Just like my grandma

A Navigator
Downloading and displaying
Porn and e-mail

saddled with netscape,
my downloads defy the space-
time continuum

That's nothing. I have beta 0.9 and it came on punch cards.