• TrickDacy@lemmy.world
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      Sort of. There was a period where they rebranded navigator to come along with an email client also. I remember it being slower and crappier! But I think they stopped updating the original “Navigator” version, at least for a while.

      • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world
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        I miss netscape.

        I know firefox is basically its codebase successor… but its not the same.

        I just want to go back in time and re-live the magic of the early internet. before search engines. before advertising. before capitalist exploitation.

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          You could use SeaMonkey if you want a modern Netscape.

          “Before search engines” is very early and the problem with that is just that if all you have is links, it’s difficult to find anything at all…

          I think the Internet of the mid 2000s to early 2010s was the best era. There were amazing new things to discover on it almost every year, people were still using actual communication platforms rather than advertising platforms, it was easy to find out all kinds of interesting facts about the world.

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            Man, websites still spread like wildfire even before search engines.

            Word of mouth is a powerful thing.

            I remember so many times trading slips of paper with website addresses written on them with others.