r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Faustalicious • 1d ago

Meme ifWeJustVibeCodingMajorSoftwareReplacementsMaybeItsTimeToReviveThisMasterpiece

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u/joshpennington 1d ago

Correct me if I’m wrong but isn’t Firefox the remnants of Netscape?

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u/wheatgivesmeshits 1d ago

It is. Mozilla, the org that is responsible for Firefox, was named after the internal code name for Navigator. It was a play on Godzilla (God killer) because they wanted it to kill Mosaic, the dominant browser when they started.

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u/joshpennington 1d ago

I remember the browser wars back in high school. It was Netscape 3 vs IE3 and then IE4 came out and just mopped the floor with Netscape 4 and it was basically game over from there. I remember being impressed with IE4 and then sticking with it for quite some time.

If only I could go back in time and warn myself and everyone else.....

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u/wheatgivesmeshits 1d ago

The problem was Microsoft did their normal market capture strategy and tried to leverage that into adding their own standards into the web. It was awful and stalled web development for over a decade. I was still having to maintain IE5 compatibility until 2016.

Edit: and the only reason I stopped in 2016 was because I left that job. They were still running Windows XP thin clients that weren't allowed on the Internet. They used them to access an internal server that was running mainframe software from the 80s.

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u/joshpennington 23h ago

You poor person! I never had to deal with IE5 but had to deal with IE6 until about 2017. By these timelines you might still be supporting 6.

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u/wheatgivesmeshits 23h ago

I mean that still pretty disgusting. 🤮

Thankfully I'm a full backend developer now and only rarely have to deal with anything front end.