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

Code Rush, produced in 2000 and broadcast on PBS, is an inside look at living and working in Silicon Valley at the height of the dot-com era. The film follows a group of Netscape engineers as they pursue at that time a revolutionary venture to save their company - giving away the software recipe for Netscape's browser in exchange for integrating improvements created by outside software developers. The copyright to the film is now available under Creative common licence vers. 3 for interested viewers to download and use. In the future the original footage from which this film was made will be accessible under the same terms.

Please visit : www.clickmovement.org/coderush

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• netscape
• internet
• explorer
• firefox
• silicon
• vallye

[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.

[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.

[eddyallen615]

This is one very "helpful" video. =p

[saucy05]

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

[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.

[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.

[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