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Independence Day (comicss.art)

submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by Pro@reddthat.com to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] AtariDump@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago (2 children)

They’ll never live down (to me at least) that they tried to charge money for a web browser.

[–] piccolo@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I mean... so did Netscape.

[–] AtariDump@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

TIL

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netscape_Navigator

[–] lime@feddit.nu 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

how many hours a day do you use a browser?

[–] AtariDump@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

8+

[–] lime@feddit.nu 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

i'd definitely pay for the development of something i use that much. unfortunately i can't donate directly to development of firefox, otherwise i would have.

[–] AtariDump@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

When the competitors are free and doing just as good a job?

Remember, we’re taking about the 90’s and Opera.

[–] lime@feddit.nu 1 points 1 day ago

opera was so much more than just a browser. it's the closest thing to the old idea of "internet suites" that netscape and later mozilla tried to create, that we ever got.