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Project Code Rush - The Beginnings of Netscape / Mozilla Documentary - YouTube

Tue, 31 Mar 2026 19:38:39 +0000

Code Rush is a documentary following the lives of a group of Netscape engineers in Silicon Valley. It covers Netscape's last year as an independent company, from their announcement of the Mozilla open source project until their acquisition by AOL. It particularly focuses on the last minute rush to make the Mozilla source code ready for release by the deadline of March 31 1998, and the impact on the engineers' lives and families as they attempt to save the company from ruin.

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In 1995, a Netscape employee wrote a hack in 10 days that now runs the Internet - Ars Technica

Sat, 06 Dec 2025 20:10:23 +0000

The 10-day creation story has become programming folklore, but even with that kernel of truth we mentioned, it tends to oversimplify the timeline. Eich’s sprint produced a working demo, not a finished language, and over the next year, Netscape continued tweaking the design. The rushed development left JavaScript with quirks and inconsistencies that developers still complain about today. So many changes were coming down the pipeline, in fact, that it began to annoy one of the industry’s most prominent figures at the time.

Tags: #javascript #netscape #web #webdev

Farewell to Tinderbox, the world’s 1st? 2nd? Continuous Integration server

Wed, 04 Jun 2014 19:54:24 +0000

In April 1997, Netscape ReleaseEngineers wrote, and started running, the world’s first? second? continuous integration server. Now, just over 17 years later, in May 2014, the tinderbox server was finally turned off. Permanently.

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Farewell to Tinderbox, the world’s 1st? 2nd? Continuous Integration server

Wed, 04 Jun 2014 19:54:24 +0000

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Project Code Rush | Click Movement

Sat, 11 Jul 2009 04:32:32 +0000

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The History of Mozilla - Evangelism Wiki

Tue, 23 Sep 2008 00:17:34 +0000

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Code Rush, the Mozilla Documentary from 2000 - Waxy.org

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 21:10:12 +0000

"In honor of the release of Firefox 3.0, I'm offering up a video that documented its very beginning in 1998 — the first open-source release of Netscape's browser and the foundation of the Mozilla project. "

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Scripting News: Point of view

Wed, 07 Mar 2007 04:43:05 +0000

"They say it's just a rehash of Netvibes. If they had been aware of how RSS came to be, they would realize that it's the other way around, Netvibes is a reprise of My.Netscape. "

Tags: #davewiner #netscape #netvibes #rss