Netscape dead now

29 December 2007 · 0 comments

It’s been a very long time indeed since I even bothered to download Netscape, and even when I did have it on my machine I never actually used it. Must be years since I really did anything at all with it. Now it’s being discontinued because apparently no-one else much is using it either: BBC [...]

 

It’s been a very long time indeed since I even bothered to download Netscape, and even when I did have it on my machine I never actually used it. Must be years since I really did anything at all with it. Now it’s being discontinued because apparently no-one else much is using it either: BBC NEWS | Technology | Web icon set to be discontinued:

Netscape Navigator, now owned by AOL, will no longer be supported after 1 February 2008, the company has said.

In the mid-1990s the browser was used by more than 90% of the web population, but numbers have slipped to just 0.6%.

Hmmm, I first brushed with Netscape back when it was at version 0.9. That’s a long time ago now. Now it’s at version 9.

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