Netscape Navigator 2.0 was released 30 years ago today.
This version introduced a number of new features:
• Plugins! This was the first time a web page could make sound, via RealAudio.
• Incremental display of progressive JPEGs on slow dialup connections.
• Animated GIFs that were actually useful.
• HTML frames.
• JavaScript! That wasn't my fault, but you still have my apologies.
• And of course my baby, the first release of Netscape Mail and News:
@jwz hey you reminded us, we probably should have thanked you years ago for writing https://www.jwz.org/gruntle/rbarip.html - it was really helpful in our Google labor organizing back around 2017-2019, because it got everyone on the same page about how the law works in that area
also, all the Google organizers got a good chuckle out of the fact that both you and we had to deal with Kent Walker. the more things change, the more they stay the same......
jwz
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