It amazes me how, since the very inception, Internet Browsers have been subject to periodic meteoric rise and subsequent fall. They do so a lot more than other pieces of software, like operating systems or word processors. It seems people are much more willing to throw out their browsers than virtually any other kind of software.
It all started with the venerable grandfather of them all, Mozilla Navigator. Marc Andreesen, the ur-type of the “smart kid with an idea brighter than even he thinks it is who goes on to think he’s the smartest person on the planet because he’s been lucky with his idea”, and his team created the software and threw it out.
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