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   The Real Bev to sticks   
   Re: 30 Years Of Netscape   
   05 Nov 24 18:19:33   
   
   XPost: alt.comp.software.firefox   
   From: bashley101@gmail.com   
      
   On 11/4/24 1:45 PM, sticks wrote:   
   > On 11/4/2024 2:10 PM, knuttle wrote:   
   >> On 11/04/2024 2:35 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:   
   >>>   but a trimmed-down adaptation of the c   
   >> I remember I started using Netscape when I have a acoustical modem with    
   >> Very limited capacity.   The one particular update, I remember I went to    
   >> my son-in-laws house and down loaded it through his ISP which came into    
   >> his house for his LAN. His system which was many times fasted the my modem.   
   >>    
   >> I have stayed with Netscape and then Firefox/Thunderbird and I believe    
   >> it is the best program out there for browsing the internet, handling    
   >> your email, and browsing the newsgroups.  I was pleased when they added    
   >> the Scheduling/Calendar to Thunderbird.  We use it exclusively to    
   >> maintain our home schedule to avoid conflicts.  I believe the    
   >> Thunderbird Scheduling/Calendar is under appreciated.   
   >    
   > One of the things I really like about Firefox is the "Firefox Account".   
   > The ability to get it all set up on a different computer by just syncing   
   > into the account has made life easy many times.  With the old people I   
   > have to maintain systems on, I set them all up on one.   
      
   Heh.  I am one of those old people and I started using Netscape .9 for    
   linux.  I even used Mosaic a few times!   
      
   --    
   Cheers, Bev   
     "History I believe furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people   
      maintaining a free civil government."   
           -- letter from Thomas Jefferson to Baron vonHumboldt, 1813   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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