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I can't tell if I'm having a brain fart Sunday morning or this is just generally a very poorly written article. Can someone give a summary? I read half of it an

I can't tell if I'm having a brain fart Sunday morning or this is just generally a very poorly written article. Can someone give a summary? I read half of it and I still don't see a single "point" being made. The closest it got making a point is: > It seemed to be this software that tried to keep up with the pace of Google Chrome more than a software that actually had its own ideas. That sentence answers itself. Obviously the issue is that it had to try to keep up with a huge corporation pouring orders of magnitude more money and time. The article is just filled with memes but doesn't really say much at all.

NonNefarious 4y ago
It's not you. It's piss-poor "writing."
rvieira 4y ago
It is poorly written. Not only it's void of insightful content, it tries to use an informal spoken style but fails to engage, completely. The images add nothing (how many memes on FF logo and Twitter-Giphy-like macros can you fit). Also random stats don't make a point, in itself.
syspec 4y ago
It's written in a quasi stream of consciousness style. I enjoyed it
stevenjgarner 4y ago
And not altogether accurate: > It all started with an app called Netscape Navigator ... believed to be the very first web browser ever Netscape Navigator was at least the 3rd web browser. The first web browser was Nexus by Tim Berners-Lee, renamed from the WorldWideWeb which was too easily confused with the distributed hypertext system known as the World Wide Web. [1] The second web browser was Mosaic (originally xmosaic) by Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina, which some of us are old enough to remember using. [2] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WorldWideWeb https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WorldWideWeb [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosaic_(web_browser) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosaic_(web_browser)
- jinushaun 4y ago
  I knew this article was going to be “quality” when I saw the line about Netscape being the first browser.

NonNefarious 4y ago

It's not you. It's piss-poor "writing."

rvieira 4y ago

It is poorly written. Not only it's void of insightful content, it tries to use an informal spoken style but fails to engage, completely. The images add nothing (how many memes on FF logo and Twitter-Giphy-like macros can you fit). Also random stats don't make a point, in itself.

syspec 4y ago

It's written in a quasi stream of consciousness style. I enjoyed it

stevenjgarner 4y ago

And not altogether accurate: > It all started with an app called Netscape Navigator ... believed to be the very first web browser ever Netscape Navigator was at least the 3rd web browser. The first web browser was Nexus by Tim Berners-Lee, renamed from the WorldWideWeb which was too easily confused with the distributed hypertext system known as the World Wide Web. [1] The second web browser was Mosaic (originally xmosaic) by Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina, which some of us are old enough to remember using. [2] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WorldWideWeb https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WorldWideWeb [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosaic_(web_browser) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosaic_(web_browser)

jinushaun 4y ago
I knew this article was going to be “quality” when I saw the line about Netscape being the first browser.