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Found this great Marc Andreessen keynote from the Netscape Developer Conference in 1996. Netscape wanted to be everything simultaneously. Youtube, Slack, Gmail,
by indescions_2018 8y ago
Found this great Marc Andreessen keynote from the Netscape Developer Conference in 1996. Netscape wanted to be everything simultaneously. Youtube, Slack, Gmail, Amazon, AWS, Dropbox and about a dozen other businesses. Wonder if they just focused on one product. Say "groupware for Fortune 500 intranets". They would have increased chance of survivability. Even considering Win98 bundling its competing offering in their OS ;)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8wdc9qkkV4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8wdc9qkkV4
- narag 8y agoWonder if they just focused on one product. Say "groupware for Fortune 500 intranets". They would have increased chance of survivability. Others think that it was one of the causes of their demise. I've deleted the link to jwz's article on Groupware because links from HN seems to be unwanted for some reason, but anyone interested surely can google it.
- forgotmypw 8y agoDid Netscape really die, or am I using its (wonderful) offspring to post this comment?
- pjc50 8y agoThe company is dead and almost all the code has been rewritten. Is it your grandfather's axe if you've replaced both the blade and the handle? At least about:mozilla still works.
- torstenvl 8y agoIs it your grandfather's axe if you've replaced both the blade and the handle? I take it you're opposed to prison sentences lasting more than seven years?
- forgotmypw 8y ago>Is it your grandfather's axe if you've replaced both the blade and the handle? It might not be /his/ axe, but it is one that he /created/.
- bitwize 8y agoYes. Firefox is to Netscape as Teenage Groot is to OG Groot.