RIP Netscape

Netscape Navigator was my first Web browser, so I’m sad to see AOL kill it this February. Netscape was developed in 1994 by Marc Andreesen. Marc previously co-authored the world’s first popular Web browser, Mosaic.

Netscape Communications’ successful IPO in 1995 kicked off the dot-com boom. AOL bought Netscape for a whopping $4.2 billion in 1998. Too bad they were unable to withstand Microsoft’s monopolistic bundling of Internet Explorer with Windows.

Netscape Throbber

I’ll miss the Netscape throbber. A huge meteor impact was the perfect metaphor for the dinosaur-killing implications of the Web.

Damn Internet Explorer. Part of the reason Microsoft was able to tie apps to the desktop for so long was because they didn’t update Internet Explorer for so long. With apps now moving off the desktop and onto the Web, Netscape will be avenged — by its Google-backed descendant, Firefox.

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January 2, 2008 | Filed Under Software | Post a Comment 

Google is Light Yagami

Light Yagami

What does Google have in common with Death Note’s Light Yagami, besides being God of the New World and deciding who lives or dies based on keywords? Answer: they both like playing Xanatos Roulettes. That’s exactly what Google did with Firefox, and they’re doing it again with the Gphones. Find out how at Emerging Earth.

If Google is Light Yagami, then sign me up as Teru Mikami. Sakujo, sakujo, sakujo, SAKUJOOO!!!


(Image via Animania.)

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November 13, 2007 | Filed Under Mobile, Software | 3 Comments 

iPhone Image Viewer Demo

While Opera Mini 4 Beta replicates the iPhone Safari browsing experience, no mobile image viewer looks as sweet as the iPhone’s — from fast rotation to pinch zooming to interface animations. Someone had better come up with software to replicate this on other phones.

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June 30, 2007 | Filed Under Hardware, Mobile, Photos, Software | Post a Comment 

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