On Sat, 5 Sep 2020 15:57:07 -0400
"Mayayana"  wrote:

> Netscape was maintained by
> AOL for awhile, if I remember correctly, then was released
> as an OSS code base.

 Yep.

> It was awhile before Firefox got off the ground.

 Indeed because the first thing the OS group did with the Netscape
source code was replace the rendering engine, then they replaced the
JavaScript subsystem by which time there was pretty much nothing left of
Netscape's code.

> At that time there was no Chrome. You
> may not remember it, but around 2000 there was pretty
> much just IE on Windows.

 If you were on Windows. Otherwise you wound up hitting the problem
that web sites were starting to get built with no checking other than being
viewed with IE on Windows and tweaked until the advertising manager was
happy.

>   Today, IE/Edge are pretty much kaput, despite that MS
> is trying hard to force Chrome/Edge. But Netscape is long,
> long gone.

 Indeed, however Firefox and derivatives are still alive and kicking.

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