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Internet People

The Chris Day Club

This is not me; however, if I ever feel the need to register a trademark with the United States Patent & Trademark Office then I can’t think of a better lawyer to represent me than one who has the same name as me.

I once thought about registering ‘MASSIVESMASH.COM‘, ‘Major Hitwaves’, and ‘The Major’ back when my web site was flying high at its peak about a decade ago, but I never followed through with it past the ‘thinking about it’ stage. Once upon a time the ‘MASSIVESMASH.COM’ domain name was worth tens of thousands of dollars, but then the ‘dot-com’ bubble popped. Nowadays the domain name is probably worth a mere hundred or so dollars. I was criticized back then for not selling out my identity on the web. I’m glad that I held strong and kept it. It was a fun 12-year ride, but this blog right here is my new passion.

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Computers Internet

Netscape Navigator: Rest In Peace

Read all about the demise of Netscape Navigator (1994-2008). (Courtesy Of The Associated Press)

Way back during the early-to-middle-1990s (it seems so long ago) when surfers of the World Wide Web (then in its infancy) could be counted in the thousands (rather than the couple billion that we have today) there was essentially only one web browser to use. That would be Netscape Navigator. It is often credited with kicking-off the worldwide phenomenon of the Internet, as well as the entire ‘dot-com-boom’ (that would eventually go bust at the end of the decade).

Microsoft came along about a year after Netscape (in 1995) with their Internet Explorer web browser, and the rest (as they say) is Internet history. Internet Explorer (5.0) eventually surpassed Netscape Navigator as the most popular web browser in the world in 1999, and nowadays it is utilized by an estimated 90% of the world’s web surfers.

Thanks for those early Internet memories Netscape. You started it all back when the World Wide Web was a barren landscape. Those were the good old days !