Blast from the Past: Mozilla stomps IE
Ok, who remembers this:
img © snafu.de
Apparently at the height of the browser wars in 97, someone dropped a huge, heavy IE sculpture at the lawn in front of Netscape offices in the dead of the night. Few people working a graveyard shift at Netscape noticed it, tipped it over and put their office mascot on top of it before anyone could notice it. In the morning people passing the Netscape offices saw a Mozilla stomping a fallen IE logo.
I admit, had no clue about this till today. I have no clue how did I keep missing it for all these years. Too funny!
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January 29th, 2007 at 3:25 am (2633) [Quote]
That is so like 1940’s fraternity style to leave a giant IE sculpture on a corp. campus.
//Dan
Posted usingJanuary 29th, 2007 at 4:12 am (2637) [Quote]
Yeah, I know. It reminds me of these old movies.
Btw Dan, why does your IP say you are in Germany?
Posted usingJanuary 29th, 2007 at 7:21 am (2645) [Quote]
Proxy?
ANyway, hard workers there at netscape
in my office, they don’t work till 1:3 AM
Posted usingJanuary 29th, 2007 at 10:12 am (2646) [Quote]
Ah yes, the good ol’ days!
I remember using Netscape 2.0 shortly after discovering Mosiac. I was partially responsible for the browser wars at NASA. I would only allow the latest version of Netscape to connect to the web proxy. This was before people were smart enough to figure out how to change their user agent string.
Long Live Mozilla!
Posted usingJanuary 29th, 2007 at 11:47 am (2650) [Quote]
Btw, I know Dan IRL. That’s I was surprised when the German flag popped up on his post.
Wikke - hehe. I leave my work 5pm on the dot if I can. Of course if some shit goes down (ie server crashes hard) I’m willing to stay till I fix it. But I never really worked till midnight.
My boss on the other hand… He once called my cell from the office at 10pm on a Saturday.
I guess if you really care about the software you are building and you are passionate about it (like I would imagine some of the Netscape developers were) I guess staying pass midnight to finish things up is not so unthinkable.
Craig - LOL. Did you actually tell people that they needed the newest Netscape to connect, or was that something they just had to figure out on their own?
BOFH vs. Rocket Scientists.
Posted usingJanuary 29th, 2007 at 12:28 pm (2653) [Quote]
I had a redirect to a webpage that explained they needed version x and where to get it. I may be a BOFH, but I try to give alternatives . . .
Posted usingJanuary 29th, 2007 at 1:05 pm (2654) [Quote]
Btw, have anyone seen Mosaic ever pop up in their server logs in the last 3-4 years? I don’t think I ever saw it being used anywhere. I had people accessing my site using Lynx quite a few times, but never Mosaic.
Posted usingJanuary 29th, 2007 at 1:08 pm (2655) [Quote]
Hmmm. Let me see if I can fix that . . .
Posted usingJanuary 29th, 2007 at 1:15 pm (2656) [Quote]
Better?
Posted using Unknown browserJanuary 29th, 2007 at 1:21 pm (2657) [Quote]
LOL! The browser detection plugin seems confused.
Posted usingJanuary 29th, 2007 at 1:37 pm (2658) [Quote]
I found an old SunOS box with Mosaic and a different string . . .
Man, does this page look weird in it!
Posted using Unknown browserJanuary 29th, 2007 at 1:41 pm (2659) [Quote]
Anybody for some old Windows . . .
(Okay I cheated on this one. Old versions of IE don’t use proxies, so I forced this string to go though)
Posted using Unknown browserJanuary 29th, 2007 at 1:48 pm (2660) [Quote]
Is it time for internet infowarz?
I am not in Germany
Posted usingJanuary 29th, 2007 at 1:53 pm (2661) [Quote]
Screenshot?
The author of the plugin apparently did not consider Mosaic to be noteworthy. None of the user agents get recognized.
In my logs I see the following:
Mosaic (TueV) for the X Window System/2.4.2
Posted usingNCSA_Mosaic/2.7b3 (X11;SunOS 4.1.4 sun4m)
January 29th, 2007 at 1:56 pm (2662) [Quote]
Dan, Are you using Tor? Or is it just a regular proxy?
Posted usingJanuary 29th, 2007 at 2:02 pm (2663) [Quote]
Hey guys, amidoinitright?
Luke, depends on the day. I use tor + a list of active proxys, I think Tor is safer of you plan to login to anything you own. Plugins make it a snap.
Posted usingJanuary 29th, 2007 at 2:06 pm (2664) [Quote]
Haha your plugin just read w3m from a japanese freebsd source as IE 6.0 under windows xp. If we lie to the computers, nobody knows.
Posted usingJanuary 29th, 2007 at 2:10 pm (2665) [Quote]
LOL! How the hell did that happen?
I think the plugin only looks at the user agent, and does some pattern matching to display these labels. So you can cheat it easily. If you change your user agent to say you are using Lynx under windows, it will probably say just that.
Btw, I have a Tor + Privoxy setup and a nice plugin for firefox that will torrify me in 1 click. I just rarely use it cause it tends to be slower at times.
Posted usingJanuary 29th, 2007 at 3:17 pm (2667) [Quote]
True it can be slow. There are other options out there too. I am using the Godhead to access my pages from now on.
:)
//Dan
Posted using Unknown browserJanuary 29th, 2007 at 3:35 pm (2668) [Quote]
Godhead? I’m not familiar with that. What is it?
Google gives me zero relevant results on that one (I mostly get religious links or stuff referring to some crappy band from the 80’s).
Posted usingFebruary 10th, 2007 at 4:07 am (2901) [Quote]
Did someone say “Mosaic”?
-rwxr-xr-t 2 root 1001 3814752 Jul 7 1995 /usr/local/bin/Mosaic-solaris-23-2.6*
OK, so we keep old bits lying around here … unfortunately, it doesn’t work on our Solaris 9 (or one last Solaris 7) system, it gets an EINVAL trying to push a “sockmod” module.
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