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Netscape Navigator was the one and only reasonable choice in opposition to the standards-threatening, anticompetitive deployment of Internet Explorer for a good chunk of time. Have some respect, and be glad it existed, especially if you are a Windows user.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netscape_Navigator

[–] alnilam@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I even think she didn't navigate, but websurfed on the information highway

[–] tired_n_bored@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

This is me when I go to somebody's house and they don't have Firefox as I refuse to touch anything Chromium-based /s

[–] emolr@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (3 children)

For real though, if anyone's old enough to remember using Netscape Navigator, they are definitely old enough to have had a grandchild by now.

[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I was about to get pissed off but then I remembered I'm 41, so yeah, if I had a kid at 20 and they had a kid at 20...

Guess I'll go sit back down in my rocking chair and take my nap.

[–] tiredofsametab@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

I guess, technically, if I had had a kid at 18-20 and my kid had done the same, maybe it would be possible. Then again, a younger step-sibling is already a grandmother.

We were still supporting navigator and/or communicator when I was working in my first IT job doing tech support for a dial-up provider.

[–] CIWS-30@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

To be fair, if you worked in the government (including the military), old apps and programs could last a long time. I wasn't THAT old when I used Netscape in the Army. Plus, there's precocious kids who do stuff like use browser and command line stuff (and even code) before their age is in the double digits.

[–] SilentStorms@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago

Facts. I remember using Netscape and using MSDOS as a kid, and I'm in my early 30s, not quite old enough to have grandchildren lol

[–] dotslashme@infosec.pub 3 points 2 years ago

It really says a lot about how far the web has come (good or bad). We used to navigate it, these days we browse it.