The Crossed Pond

The Netscape browser goes out of support tomorrow.

Obviously, that bothers virtually no one, because virtually no one uses it. Firefox, a Netscape Successor, is way more popular although, in general, still dwarfed by Internet Explorer (for which, arguably, Netscape blazed a path which Microsoft followed and on which they caught Netscape and beat it into a bloody pulp). On the plus side, Internet Explorer is now a relatively decent browser (although not without its frustrations, particularly for web designers) and it’s not as if Firefox is without flaws (give me back my RAM, you bastard).

The reason I was thinking about this at all, of late, is just that the idea of life without internet is weird. Regardless of when you took up internet use (for work or personal uses) it quickly becomes a difficult habit to break. Netscape’s gone but it was an important early part of something that’s not going away, bringing us news, entertainment and, most importantly, posts by me.