Comments on: What is Netscape? http://blog.abrenna.com/what-is-netscape/ Norwegian IT journalist Thu, 24 Jul 2008 09:56:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: KiL http://blog.abrenna.com/what-is-netscape/#comment-46 KiL Sun, 06 Apr 2008 12:44:08 +0000 http://blog.abrenna.com/?p=14#comment-46 Well yes and no. If you talk about which browser is the oldest, you have to admit that Firefox is nothing but a rebranded Netscape, so you could still count it as Netscape, the source is essentially the same. Mac OS X for example is also conisdered a direct decendant of NeXTSTEP despite the different name. So just tell your kids that Firefox used to be called Netscape, when a company with the same name was still mainly developing it. Well yes and no. If you talk about which browser is the oldest, you have to admit that Firefox is nothing but a rebranded Netscape, so you could still count it as Netscape, the source is essentially the same.

Mac OS X for example is also conisdered a direct decendant of NeXTSTEP despite the different name. So just tell your kids that Firefox used to be called Netscape, when a company with the same name was still mainly developing it.

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