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...
    • Psythik@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      22 days ago

      Yeah I thought everyone knew this. Netscape became Mozilla Browser, which became Firefox.

  • bitjunkie@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    23 days ago

    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.

    • sik0fewl@lemmy.caEnglish
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      23 days ago

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