Rappelons que le nom #firefox vient du fait que les anciens de chez #netscape étaient tous des pyromanes en puissance et voulaient rendre hommage a leur divertissement favori. Apparemment leurs nouveaux outils de design créés par une boîte spécialisée en #ia est le nouveau follet dans leurs collections.
March 31 was already significant to me because that's the day in 1998 when I helped #Netscape Navigator become #OpenSource.
Now this day has a whole new meaning for me as a #transgender woman. And it's my first #TransDayOfVisibility that I celebrate publicly since coming out to everyone on June 21 of last year.
To all my #trans siblings, I see you. Even if complete visibility isn't possible for you right now. You still matter. You're still loved. And you're still trans. Never doubt that. 🏳️⚧️🫂💖
March 29th, 1995: Netscape Communications Corporation goes public. Netscape Navigator was a dominant web browser in the early days of the internet. Its IPO was a landmark event, fueling the dot-com boom of the late 1990s.
In part to protect US superiority in #AI, the US has restricted high-end GPUs from being sold in certain countries, such as China.
As a result, available NVidia GPUs for China aren't much better than what Huawei can offer, leaving China and other countries with little choice but to shift billions of dollars from NVidia to Huawei.
The Biden Administration has, through good intentions, unexpectedly given a massive subsidy to Chinese companies.
@ovid Similar stupid situation from the mid-1990s: Domestically-developed web browsers such as #Netscape had to ship a weaker "international" version because of US software #encryption export rules. They used a drastically reduced #SSL key length (e.g., to “protect" credit card info) which could be decrypted in a matter of days by a single PC.
To make matters worse, even US users mostly ended up with the weak version since it was more of a hassle to get the full-strength download.
No, I don't think we would have #Perl in our web browsers (and possibly everywhere else). But #JavaScript might have started less #Self-ish and a little more Perl-ish.
@Narshada@mayor@brns@philsplace@appleinsider@CmdrTaco#Netscape made the “Netcaster” full-screen “webtop” to augment or replace the traditional personal computer desktop metaphor with content pushed over the web instead of users selecting links. In truth, it was a bandwidth-sapping ad delivery platform.
#Microsoft viewed it as an existential threat to #Windows and worked to kill Netscape completely.
29 Years ago Netscape Navigator 1.0 started the web we know today
Netscape Navigator was the world’s first web browser developed for commercial purposes, and it dominated the market until Internet Explorer came out (with Explorer being bundled with Windows).
Netscape Navigator 1.0 launched on December 15th, 1994, and it ...continues
29 years ago on December 15, 1994, the first version of Netscape Navigator released.
Inspired by the success of the Mosaic web browser, Netscape Navigator was developed by Netscape Communications. Netscape Navigator aimed to capitalise on the commercial potential of web browsers. Initially offered without charge for all non-commercial users, it quickly gained popularity.
In the mid-1990s Netscape Navigator became the standard web browser, until IE cane along…
Looking for Netscape 7.0 PR1 in German for Windows. Already checked the usual suspects archive.org and evolt.org but had no luck. Any ideas? #Retrocomputing