Netscape Mozilla Documentary 1998 - 2000 ProJect Code Rush - creative common licence

[eddyallen615]

This is one very "helpful" video. =p

[saucy05]

i thought i was a nerd till i saw this video.

[Theitisme400]

Very interesting! Thanks for the upload! This might seem like a dumb question to some of you, but I'm just interested to know if Mozilla FF is the same company and crew?

[odyssomay]

If they programmed a good programming language, like common lisp, these problems would never happen (if they adhered to functional programming).

Why?

Multiple reasons. The biggest ones is:

- You never have to recompile the whole software during testing (reloading a function takes <0.1sec).

- "Isolation", a bug in some function will never ever affect some other non-related part of the software.

I would also like to put a word about clojure, it's easily the best programming language I know of.

[goingwithzed]

@odyssomay There are good reasons why things evolve as they do... whether its languages or operating systems, theres usually very good reasons that things go the way they do.

[avielMenter]

two and a half million lines of code for a browser? Are they writing this in assembly?

[imaginesagi]

I really enjoyed the documentary. I really never new what went down when Netscape went away. As a loyal past Netscape user, I never knew until today that I am practically using Netscape again as a Firefox user :)

[sausagelamo]

I never knew programmers were so ugly

[nrgshkl093]

every profession sux....programmer/IT territories are filthy literally......i dont know what i wanna become

[nrgshkl093]

firefox 4 sux ass...they sold themseves out to chrome....im gonna use 3.6x until it stop getting supported

[laduran]

I know all these programmers created some incredible software with a decent legacy. 3rd most popular browser in the world soon. But still most of the programmers seem like pathetic figures rather than sypathetic. The cans of Coke everywhere, the obesity and the unhealthy eating means these people have sacrificed themselves for code that will be out of date in a few years. BTW, Bill Gates is not the bad guy. He donates Billions!

[bubbah]

@laduran So if someone starts donating money, all his previous evil deeds no longer happened?

I don't think so!

[laduran]

I know all these programmers created some incredible software with a decent legacy. 3rd most popular browser in the world soon.

But still most of the programmers seem like pathetic figures rather than sypathetic. Also the documentary tried really hard to make Bill Gates out as the bad guy. It hurts the story to know that he has given Billions to non-profits around the world.

[daimyoyo]

This was amazing. And I saw it on an iPhone running wifi off a portable 4G router. The Internet is just getting started. I'm excited to see what the next 10 years will bring.

[TheBilly]

It would be helpful if you'd remember to say what creative commons license in the description. They're not all the same. CC-BY is much different from BY-NC-ND

(in this case it's NC-SA)

[enrichedd]

yay

[DaFawky]

Holy shit. People had these haircuts in the year 2000? Looks like a video from the mid 90's..

[bgertzfield]

@DaFawky I disavow all knowledge of my haircut at 18:40. It didn't exist.

[Pandoraforlife]

50$ an hour programming computers at age 12? I' m jealous. :/

[dotnetguy64]

Sad that the person who ripped this didn't do deinterlacing. The interlace artifacts are extremely distracting. :(

[JaseyWang]

no subtitle ><

[krislyttle]

This place was like Halloween 24/7.

[saivert]

great documentary. This culture is so unique.

[trumpetmariachi75]

on 1996 i was using silicon graphics with netscape surfing some primitive web pages... was funny

[sunsty1e]

Great post!!

[JesusManson323]

I remember when Netscape was God.

And when Internet Explorer 3 was a friggin joke...buggy, choking on web pages.

I used to love clicking on that Netscape icon. It symbolized a new window out to the world.

[steffueueue]

Jamie is the most sexiest man on earth :) *sigh*

[slier81]

Great stuff

Hate to see Netscape fall

[MountieXXL]

good stuff.

[zubinix]

At the end of it all you're let wondering if the cost is worth it? The cost to family and social life and your health. No doubt for those who obtain their financial freedom to a large degree it is but to the many who don't what price did they pay?

[dancress]

Very interesting insight into the times just before the Internet Bubble burst. Of course I think that Netscape could have survived if they had just taken a better look at why Mozilla

was already moderately successful by then. The Netscape Browser was good before it became just another piece of superfluous bloatware after the AOL takeover.

[someman7]

@dancress I think you don't have any idea what you were talking about a year ago. Am I right, or will you explain it slowly to me? ;-)

[dancress]

@someman7 wow, i commented here? cool. so, what don't you understand? netscape ruled until AOL took over. then it became crapware. which is still a pity today since competition is always good for us, the customer *shrug*

[someman7]

@dancress but you implied they should've taken pointers from Mozilla. What does that mean?