While I'm no fan of comcrap, send it to me as well. Please.
Tracey
> Reece, I'm going to send you something I sent Astro a few days back about the
> chairman of Comcrap that just might change your mind...
>
> Reece Jennings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The big companies are so
> egotistic. They don't ask what we like. They just
> give us what they want to sell. Screw them. Except for Microsoft and
> Comcast!
>
> LOLLOL!!!
>
> Maurice Jennings
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> From: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
> Behalf Of ravenadal
> Sent: Sunday, December 30, 2007 10:27 AM
> To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [scifinoir2] Plug Pulled on Netscape Navigator
>
> I have always hated Microsoft Explorer (I currently use Firefox) but I
> was big Netscape fan until AOL bought it and did what it did to Time
> Warner.
>
> ~(no)rave!
>
> http://www.foxnews.
> <http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2007Dec28/0,4670,NetscapeRIP,00.html>
> com/wires/2007Dec28/0,4670,NetscapeRIP,00.html
>
> AOL Pulls Plug on Netscape Web Browser
>
> Friday, December 28, 2007
>
> By ANICK JESDANUN, AP Internet Writer
>
> NEW YORK -
> Netscape Navigator, the world's first commercial Web browser and the
> launch pad of the Internet boom, will be pulled off life support Feb.
> 1 after a 13-year run.
>
> Its current caretakers, Time Warner Inc.'s AOL, decided to kill
> further development and technical support to focus on growing the
> company as an advertising business. Netscape's usage dwindled with
> Microsoft Corp.'s entry into the browser business, and Netscape all
> but faded away following the birth of its open-source cousin, Firefox.
>
> "While internal groups within AOL have invested a great deal of time
> and energy in attempting to revive Netscape Navigator, these efforts
> have not been successful in gaining market share from Microsoft's
> Internet Explorer," Netscape Director Tom Drapeau wrote in a blog
> entry Friday.
>
> In recent years, Netscape has been little more than a repackaged
> version of the more popular Firefox, which commands about 10 percent
> of the Web browser market, with almost all of the rest going to
> Internet Explorer.
>
> People will still be able to download and use the Netscape browser
> indefinitely, but AOL will stop releasing security and other updates
> on Feb. 1. Drapeau recommended that the small pool of Netscape users
> download Firefox instead.
>
> A separate Netscape Web portal, which has had several incarnations in
> recent years, will continue to operate.
>
> The World Wide Web was but a few years old when in April 1993 a team
> at the University of Illinois' National Center for Supercomputing
> Applications released Mosaic, the first Web browser to integrate
> images and sound with words. Before Mosaic, access to the Internet and
> the Web was largely limited to text, with any graphics displayed in
> separate windows.
>
> Marc Andreessen and many of his university colleagues soon left to
> form a company tasked with commercializing the browser. The first
> version of Netscape came out in late 1994.
>
> Netscape fed the gold-rush atmosphere with a landmark initial public
> offering of stock in August 1995. Netscape's stock carried a
> then-steep IPO price of $28 per share, a price that doubled on opening
> day to give the startup a $2 billion market value even though it had
> only $20 million in sales.
>
> But Netscape's success also drew the attention of Microsoft, which
> quickly won market share by giving away its Internet Explorer browser
> for free with its flagship Windows operating system. The bundling
> prompted a Justice Department antitrust lawsuit and later a settlement
> with Microsoft.
>
> Netscape eventually dropped fees for the software, but it was too
> late. Undone by IE, Netscape sold itself to AOL in a $10 billion deal
> completed in early 1999.
>
> Netscape spawned an open-source project called Mozilla, in which
> developers from around the world freely contribute to writing and
> testing the software. Mozilla released its standalone browser,
> Firefox, and Netscape was never able to regain its former footing.
>
> Copyright 2007 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This
> material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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> "There is no reason Good can't triumph over Evil, if only angels will get
> organized along the lines of the Mafia." -Kurt Vonnegut, "A Man Without A
> Country"
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