Talk:Netscape/Archives/2020

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"New Aurora Corporation"?

Latest comment: 5 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

I don't understand what the article means here: "AOL renamed the Netscape Communications Corporation to New Aurora Corporation and transferred the Netscape brand to themselves. AOL sold the former Netscape company now known as New Aurora Corporation to Microsoft who in turn sold the former Netscape company again to Facebook; the Netscape brand remained with AOL.[clarification needed] The former Netscape company is currently a non-operating subsidiary of Facebook, still known as New Aurora Corporation." I see discussion of this below in Talk, but it would help if someone would please edit the article to (a) add citations and (b) clarify what this all means. If AOL kept the Netscape brand, then what's left that actually changed hands to Microsoft and then to Facebook? People? Old computer equipment? Patents or trademarks or copyrights? - Brian Kendig (talk) 21:39, 29 May 2018 (UTC)

Netscape isn't defunct
Latest comment: 4 years ago3 comments1 person in discussion

They have an ISP (but I'm not sure if it's just operated by AOL or Verizon now)

TypicallyTrue (talk) 23:39, 22 March 2020 (UTC)

There's a reason my name is TypicallyTrue: it's only typical that my stuff is true, but I can't guarantee it. Can I sign posts twice? Hmm....I'm bored today, so why not?

ok bye

~~TypicallyTrue (talk) 23:39, 22 March 2020 (UTC)~~

I could have at least read a few words (see previous post "'New Aurora Corporation'?"). Was wrong, brands were transferred to AOL.

bye yet again

TypicallyTrue (talk) 23:44, 22 March 2020 (UTC)

Earliest "wide-use" browser

Latest comment: 3 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

The history section is not a proper history section. A history section starts with what existed before the thing we make the history of. WP:Blinding-USA-nationalism maybe ? The web was invented by Tim Berners-Lee and colleagues at CERN. The first web browsers were CERN browsers (free domain, from the start). I came to this page only to read more about this. But the history of Netscape, according to this wikipedia page, is deus ex machina, apparently... What existed before doesn't matter because no one was making money. "Netscape is the first company that capitalized on the web". Oh, so the people who invented the damn thing itself don't matter because they did not capitalize, right ? And then the section only mentions "First wide-use browser". What happend before : We don't know. Big case of blinding US-centrism and WP:nationalism Work to do to improve the history section. Links with CERN text-mode browsers. And gaps between the two ? 2A01:CB08:1D7:B300:5C0:1458:F366:EB63 (talk) 04:21, 10 September 2020 (UTC)

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Latest comment: 6 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

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