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Rekall Incorporated@lemm.ee to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish ·
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What Ever Happened to Netscape?

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What Ever Happened to Netscape?

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Rekall Incorporated@lemm.ee to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish ·
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It was a magical time, hearing the scrambling sound of your phone line connecting you to the Internet. Launching Netscape and staring at the throbber animation while...
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    It was always my understanding that much of the core of Communicator eventually became early Firefox, but I’ve never really fact-checked that, just kind of read it here and there anecdotally on forums.

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      And Thunderbird for the email portion. Yes, web and email were in the same application.

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        Vivaldi

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        4-in-1 🙃

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        And with GMail and Chrome, it is still.

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