This is an instant bookmark! Also do use the side bar to change topics so that it isnt all doom and gloom.
GaryBluto 1 hours ago [-]
I am both incredibly happy that this exists and disturbed by the possibility that it being posted here will result in it's discovery internally (as I presume it's automated) and shutdown.
IIRC this is just a rebranded version of another service run by the parent company. I remember seeing it recently but don't have a link on hand.
hecanjog 2 hours ago [-]
The "download browser" link led to an AOL_Netscape.exe -- I guess it's this Chromium-based web browser mentioned on wikipedia but I don't feel like installing wine :)
> Netscape's browser development continued until December 2007, when AOL announced that the company would stop supporting it by early 2008.[11][12] Until 2025, AOL used the Netscape brand to market a discount Internet service provider, which itself provided a Chromium-based web browser called Netscape, developed by UK security firm SentryBay.
IIRC this is just a rebranded version of another service run by the parent company. I remember seeing it recently but don't have a link on hand.
> Netscape's browser development continued until December 2007, when AOL announced that the company would stop supporting it by early 2008.[11][12] Until 2025, AOL used the Netscape brand to market a discount Internet service provider, which itself provided a Chromium-based web browser called Netscape, developed by UK security firm SentryBay.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netscape
Whoops! Not exactly Relaxing Sunday Reading Material... so I deleted the messages.
This page is a lot nicer though:
https://isp.netscape.com/entertainment/
2021 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26733494