Comment by fnordpiglet

I was an early employee at Netscape, and worked on the browser, server, and the services platforms. It was a hell of a ride - you felt the world changing under your keyboard. I am glad to see it still brings joy to people to use the product of our work in its original form. I often wonder how technology would look today if Netscape hadn’t been crushed for threatening Microsoft’s os dominance. After Netscape internet technologies went through a dark age without innovation until Chrome and related technologies, which were sadly in service of another monopolist - but this one protecting its dominance in pervasive surveillance.