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   Mr. Man-wai Chang to Lawrence D'Oliveiro   
   Re: 30 Years Of Netscape   
   05 Nov 24 23:01:21   
   
   XPost: alt.comp.software.firefox   
   From: toylet.toylet@gmail.com   
      
   On 5/11/2024 3:35 am, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:   
   > Mosaic Communications Corporation (later Netscape Communications) was   
   > founded 30 years ago. They were brash enough to thumb their noses at   
   > Microsoft. And if you remember that time, Microsoft was indeed slow to   
   > appreciate the importance of the then-up-and-coming Internet. Bill   
   > Gates famously put out a book called “The Way Ahead”, talking about   
   > how he saw the future of computing evolving, and he didn’t even   
   > mention the Internet, except in a hastily-added postscript.   
      
   I have been using Netscape then Mozilla as browsers all these years.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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