Word: planeteers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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They always said they were doomed, the bright young hackers who made Netscape Communications the fastest-growing software company on the planet. It was their unofficial slogan: "We're doomed!" It was whispered over high fives in the hallway. It was the sign-off at all-hands meetings, the spoken and unspoken message of the day. "We're doomed...
...game, including a deal with search-engine firm Excite that will bring in $70 million over the next two years. But it's also been reduced to giving away its browser code for free in a last-ditch effort to enlist every anti-Microsoft hacker on the planet to do battle with Gates...
...life teemed upon the Red Planet once upon a millennium, it wouldn't have lacked for H20. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which pulls the strings on the Mars Global Surveyor satellite, now reports that Earth's neighbor shows the first clear evidence of oceans and widespread thermal activity in its early history -- both crucial elements in any sort of Martian genesis...
...signs of a hydrothermal system found by the Surveyor hint at a thicker, more Earth-like atmosphere during the planet's first couple billion years. High temperatures may also be one reason the planet is now red. The Greeks thought the Martian color meant war and destruction; Surveyor may end up proving it means creation...
Given the delays and cost overruns, space junkies hoping to book a weekend flight to the International Space Station for those great views of the home planet may have to wait. Meanwhile, Kodak and NASA are offering the next best thing over the Web. Next month they will begin selling digital photos shot by real U.S. astronauts from space shuttles, like this one of Lake Michigan. Choose from some 500 images, $14 to $30 apiece, at earth.jsc.nasa.gov