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. 🏳️⚧️🫂💖
I lament the day in 1994 when #Netscape executives ordered #BrendanEich to dump #Scheme and design a new, Java-like scripting language that became "The Abominable #JavaScript".
Had Scheme been allowed to drive the browser as Eich originally intended, a cousin of #Emacs would be running the #Web today.
Well into the late 1990s, I used Emacs as my IDE, calendar, organiser, mail client, and web browser. Fun times....
29 years ago on October 13, 1994, Mosaic Netscape 0.9 was released, introducing the concept of cookies to the Internet and delivering a significant improvement over previous web browsers.
Mosaic Netscape 0.9 played a major role in the popularisation of the World Wide Web. It made the web more accessible to a wider audience
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.
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.
25 years ago on September 28, 1998, Internet Explorer overtook Netscape Navigator in market share for the first time, marking a turning point in the browser wars of the late 1990s.
This was part of the beginning of Internet Explorer's dominance in the browser market, which continued for several years. Microsoft's bundling of Internet Explorer with its Windows operating system played a significant role in this shift.
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…
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.
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.