Word: browser
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bottom of the class: Lycos, which is barely scratching the surface with coverage of about nine million web pages. Best browser award goes to HotBot, which has managed to catalog a third of the web, or around 100 million pages. But as Lawrence and Giles say, none of the engines match up to the searching power you get by using any two or three of them in conjunction. With the Internet set to hit a staggering 3 billion pages by the next century, it?s only going to become more true: If you want to become a better surfer...
...grander: to change the world. At the top of his resume, he'd carefully spelled it out: "employment objective: To improve people's lives through software." Zawinski knew that from ones and zeros gorgeous cathedrals could grow, monuments to inspire and empower people. He believed that Netscape and its browser had that potential...
Then the giant awoke. Fast-forward to late 1996, when Microsoft launched the third revision of its Internet Explorer: it was finally usable. Linked to Windows and bundled with virtually every PC sold, it soon became unavoidable. Netscape's browser revenues went into free fall. It looked as if the company was doomed...
Zawinski and his co-workers had another idea: Don't give away just the Netscape browser, give away the source code too. This is like Coca-Cola's giving away free six-packs and the secret recipe as well, so you can make Coke at home. Here's the reasoning: Microsoft is so much bigger, and can throw so many programmers at any problem, that Netscape's only chance is to harness the talents of the thousands of hackers on the Net who might be willing to improve on the program if they had a stake in it. "I wouldn...
...illegal about that. The problem, they say, is that Microsoft has been using its control of the desktop to pry its way into new markets. Microsoft has "done almost everything they can think of to put us out of business," Barksdale told the Senators. He should know: Netscape's browser was unrivaled after its launch in 1994. But pressured by Microsoft, which was giving a virtually identical product away, Netscape saw its market share plummet. Now the company gives away not just its software but the underlying source code as well...