Another year older, another year nearer the grave. Yes folks, AOL has decided to announce that it will no longer support Netscape navigator. During the mid-1990s, a time when Downtime harboured foolish fantasies such as ambition, Netscape was the dominant web browser.
This was, of course, before Bill Gates discovered what WWW stood for and deemed it worthy of a mention in the second edition of The Road Ahead – the first edition famously made no mention of the world wide wait.
Shortly after this, Internet Explorer was bundled with the Windows operating system and crushed Navigator like Downtime crushes parking tickets.
This gave rise to the infamous “browser wars”, which, although not as exciting as Star Wars’ Clone Wars, could nevertheless have made a better premise for a Doctor Who Christmas special than the televisual abortion Downtime watched over the holidays.
