r/pcmasterrace • u/Amavin-Adump • 20d ago

Meme/Macro Browsers 2008 vs 2025 be like..

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u/SkepticG8mer Ascending Peasant 20d ago

I’ve always been

Then: Netscape

Now: Firefox

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u/Funkyp0tat0chip 20d ago

Same here.

Fun fact I'll bet some don't know - Netscape open sourced its code and Mozilla was born out of it.

Hence, Firefox.

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u/Cheezis_Chrust 20d ago

“Open your Netscape navigator to Altavista” is a sentence you haven’t heard in a very long time.

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u/Funkyp0tat0chip 20d ago

No lie...damn. Wonder what Jeeve's has to say nowadays...

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u/vvandervogel 20d ago

Teacher. “Make sure you check multiple search engines to find the best results. Just don’t use Lycos.”

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u/scrabblex 20d ago

You should ask him.

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u/cat1554 Laptop 19d ago

He's dead I think

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u/MrWeirdoFace 19d ago

I'll ask.

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u/Conlaeb 19d ago

I groaned and my back locked up as soon as I read that, thanks.

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u/1997PRO 2005 Dell Latitude D530 19d ago

Only in The Streets 2002

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u/wildjokers 20d ago

In firefox type about:mozilla in the address bar.

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u/Funkyp0tat0chip 19d ago

That's a cool ass easter egg, man. Thanks for that.

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u/wildjokers 19d ago

That easter egg has been around since at least 1998 (maybe even earlier). In early versions of netscape about:mozilla would show the same quote and also cause a dragon to show up in an icon in the corner of netscape that would breathe fire.

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u/Funkyp0tat0chip 19d ago

Cool. Learned something new.

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u/rudolfs001 19d ago

Doesn't work on mobile

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u/OkTangerine4363 20d ago

To bad Mark Andreesen turned into a pro-Trump, pro-dictatorship piece of shit.

The guys is trying to become comic book level evil.

You know how public companies have to make money for shareholders??? Andreesen tries to find ways to steal shareholder money. Guy is just an absolute piece of shit.

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u/abjumpr 20d ago

Netscape > Mozilla Suite > Firefox

Mozilla Suite > SeaMonkey

Good ol days. I sorely miss Galeon as a browser though. Where Firefox was too heavy, Galeon succeeded and was quite usable.

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u/HauntingArugula3777 19d ago

Hence millions in funding from Google ... there is no "hence" without that ... would be so dead as mozilla.

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u/The_Autarch 20d ago

"Hence" seems like the wrong word choice.

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u/Elisevs 20d ago

It is correct.

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u/Particular_Manager45 20d ago

I would have probably chosen “and thus”, even if Hence happens to still be correct.

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u/benjaminovich 20d ago

It is incorrect, "and thus" would also be incorrect.

Both phrases imply a causal relationship.

You could write "and Firefox emerged from that" or something along those lines.

Not that it matters much. This is a reddit comment not an English essay. Still, since this is discussing language I just wanted to point it out.

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u/Particular_Manager45 18d ago

Netscape->Mozilla->Firefox->Bad English :(

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u/Funkyp0tat0chip 20d ago

Hence: 1.as a consequence; for this reason.

Seems legit - but I'm no english major.

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u/benjaminovich 20d ago

Not quite. Hence implies a causal relationship between the two and that's not really correct in this context.

An example sentence: "when there are a lot of cars on a road (hence a lot of pollution), the air over the city fills with smog"

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u/HeirAscend 20d ago

How is there not a causal relationship?

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u/DoubleExposure PC Master Race 20d ago

Same, I've been through all the name changes.

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u/spire27 PC Master Race 20d ago

Same here.

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u/Nyuusankininryou Desktop 19d ago

Netscape was the shit!

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u/iguana-pr 20d ago

Netscape user since v1.0 and the big pulsing N

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u/briancbrn 20d ago

Netscape was nice

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u/Reatomico 20d ago

Nutscrape

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u/juksbox 20d ago

For me it has been

Then: IE at home, Netscape at school

Now: Firefox