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Netscape Navigator's Last Day: A Haiku

n8srq — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 11:03:33 EST

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

n8srq

Netscape Navigator's Last Day: A Haiku

Hipp — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 19:51:20 EST

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

Hipp

Netscape Navigator's Last Day: A Haiku

DeadWriter — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 19:07:02 EST

A Navigator
Downloading and displaying
Porn and e-mail

DeadWriter

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subryu — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 18:26:31 EST

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

subryu

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herbvee — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 17:48:49 EST

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

herbvee

Netscape Navigator's Last Day: A Haiku

rdldr1 — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 17:41:35 EST

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

rdldr1

Netscape Navigator's Last Day: A Haiku

NightElfMohawk — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 17:04:27 EST

Damned E.I.

E.I.
E.I.O.

NightElfMohawk

Netscape Navigator's Last Day: A Haiku

ZaronZor — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 16:50:21 EST

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

ZaronZor

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Hipp — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 16:46:30 EST

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

Hipp

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tamoko — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 16:33:48 EST

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

tamoko

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RomeoDude — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 15:49:16 EST

@Jimbuck:

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

RomeoDude

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ry_ry — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 15:47:54 EST

Multiple refreshes and still a double post? Seriously?

ry_ry

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ry_ry — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 15:47:25 EST

Old internet friend
Fought IE valiantly
Another victim

ry_ry

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ry_ry — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 15:46:09 EST

Old internet friend
Fought IE valiantly
Another victim

ry_ry

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graffiksguru — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 15:16:02 EST

@Jimbuck: too funny!

graffiksguru

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reddingofish — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 15:11:04 EST

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.

reddingofish

Netscape Navigator's Last Day: A Haiku

emptythought — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 15:06:50 EST

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.

emptythought

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reddingofish — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 15:02:19 EST

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

reddingofish

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mjmahon — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 14:56:13 EST

I freaking love Frucci haikus

mjmahon

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eduz — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 14:55:55 EST

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

eduz

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ANoel — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 14:55:49 EST

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

ANoel

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Seiven — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 14:47:21 EST

GOOD RIDDANCE Nutscrape Aggrevator

Seiven

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IrisMR — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 14:41:59 EST

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

IrisMR

Netscape Navigator's Last Day: A Haiku

BloggyMcBlogBlog — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 14:37:11 EST

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]

BloggyMcBlogBlog

Netscape Navigator's Last Day: A Haiku

eduz — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 14:33:58 EST

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

eduz

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markarian — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 14:30:58 EST

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 :)

markarian

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SchruteBuck — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 14:30:30 EST

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.

SchruteBuck

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nutbastard — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 14:29:38 EST

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

nutbastard

Netscape Navigator's Last Day: A Haiku

nutbastard — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 14:28:42 EST

@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

: (

nutbastard

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Fierock — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 14:16:13 EST

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

Fierock

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theCornerinvasion — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 14:16:12 EST

@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.

theCornerinvasion

Netscape Navigator's Last Day: A Haiku

jkbuster — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 14:15:20 EST

@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.

jkbuster

Netscape Navigator's Last Day: A Haiku

Fierock — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 14:14:35 EST

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

Fierock

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Poomobile — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 14:14:08 EST

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!!

Poomobile

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nutbastard — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 14:10:14 EST

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.

nutbastard

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nutbastard — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 14:07:23 EST

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.

nutbastard

Netscape Navigator's Last Day: A Haiku

soggy_cheerio — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 14:06:53 EST

But browser haiku
Net Positive convention
Bring back Be O S

soggy_cheerio

Netscape Navigator's Last Day: A Haiku

ZombieFlanders — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 14:04:33 EST

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.

ZombieFlanders

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EBone — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 14:03:30 EST

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.

EBone

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BostonPimpDaddy — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 14:00:58 EST

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.

BostonPimpDaddy

Netscape Navigator's Last Day: A Haiku

norfizzle — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 13:59:35 EST

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

norfizzle

Netscape Navigator's Last Day: A Haiku

Part-Time-Viking — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 13:59:00 EST

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

Part-Time-Viking

Netscape Navigator's Last Day: A Haiku

Rain-man — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 13:59:00 EST

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

Rain-man

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detach — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 13:46:27 EST

@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 :-'(

detach

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dingus — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 13:44:52 EST

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

dingus

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mmplisskin — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 13:38:07 EST

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

mmplisskin

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SchruteBuck — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 13:33:00 EST

@tamoko: I hate E.I.

SchruteBuck

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nutbastard — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 13:32:01 EST

@tamoko:
a little lisdexic this morning?

nutbastard

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nutbastard — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 13:31:42 EST

@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.

nutbastard

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tamoko — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 13:31:38 EST

@SchruteBuck: Blame E.I. instead.

tamoko

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Kered — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 13:31:24 EST

Man, Netscape was such an awful browser.

Kered

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SchruteBuck — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 13:29:53 EST

That's sad. I blame Safari.

SchruteBuck

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Maasneotek — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 13:29:16 EST

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

Maasneotek

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jonthomasdesigns — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 13:28:54 EST

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

jonthomasdesigns

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Jimbuck — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 13:27:26 EST

What are those black things in front of the packaging?

Jimbuck