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Farewell to Netscape

AOL’s director of the Netscape brand announced last Friday that AOL will cease development on all Netscape web browsers on February 1, 2008. The company will continue to support the current version of the browser, Netscape 9, by releasing patches or security fixes until that date. After February 1, all development will stop.

I remember seeing Netscape for the first time while visiting a friend at the University of Illinois. For those who don’t know, Netscape was invented at U of I and I got a glimpse of the future of the web that many people didn’t see until years later. I was amazed to see imagery mixed in with text on my favorite subject at the time, Nine Inch Nails. I knew at that moment that I wanted to be a part of this internet thing. So I’m sad to see Netscape take it’s final bow, but hopeful that there will be similar experiences for computer science college students in the years to come that will change the way we all look at computers.