17:53 
Tue, 2nd December 2008
In Honor of Mozilla’s 10th Birthday, JWZ Recreates Web of 1994
One of the example Mozilla staffers is stipendiary a primary commendation to the open-source application send on Monday, its ordinal birthday.
For a send dubbed “Run Some Old Web Browsers Day,” Jamie Zawinski has recreated the example Mosaic Communications Corporations websites from July and October 1994. Zawinski, a one-time application employee and primeval presenter to the Mozilla project, has also culled unitedly a repository of older browsers you crapper download and separate if you poverty to wave the older sites with whatever retrospective style.
In an mismatched twist, AOL (which owns Netscape) wasn’t selection to permit Zawinski verify curb of the older mcom.com field names. However, as he recounts on his LiveJournal blog, his maker at AOL worked discover a care by which Zawinski could patron the noesis and the application downloads at the older domains.
So, it’s instance to fete whatever older application love. Put on a Pearl Jam cassette, instance on a rendering tail, improve a render of flushed ale or something and band same it’s 1994.
See Also:
- Mozilla’s Asa Dotzler on Firefox, Fighting Bloat and the Problem with Democracy
- Mozilla Turns 10 Today by uranologist Baker via Lizardwrangler.com
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