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3 unusual facts about Netscape Communicator


Specht v. Netscape Communications Corp.

Claims related to SmartDownload are not covered by the license agreement for Netscape Communicator, despite the fact that SmartDownload is meant to enhance the functioning of Communicator.

Five of the six plaintiffs downloaded Netscape Communicator, which consists of Netscape Navigator and other web software, from the Netscape website, and all five of them acknowledge that they clicked "Yes", indicating assent to the terms of the click-wrap license agreement for Communicator.

The Cathedral and the Bazaar

Most famously, in 1998 it also provided the final push for Netscape Communications Corporation to release the source code for Netscape Communicator and start the Mozilla project.


Fishcam

Netscape has a web feed of their fishtank, and for some time had an easter egg hidden in Netscape Communicator that would bring that page up when a user pressed CTRL + ALT + F. The Netscape Fishcam was the 2nd live camera to start broadcasting on the Web.


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