And Mozilla became Firefox, and called itself Mozilla/5.0 (Windows U Windows NT 5.1 sv-SE rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041108 Firefox/1.0, and Firefox was very good. But Netscape was reborn as Mozilla, and Mozilla built Gecko, and called itself Mozilla/5.0 (Windows U Windows NT 5.0 en-US rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826, and Gecko was the rendering engine, and Gecko was good. And behold, Netscape was killed, and there was much rejoicing at Microsoft. And Microsoft grew impatient, and did not wish to wait for webmasters to learn of IE and begin to send it frames, and so Internet Explorer declared that it was “Mozilla compatible” and began to impersonate Netscape, and called itself Mozilla/1.22 (compatible MSIE 2.0 Windows 95), and Internet Explorer received frames, and all of Microsoft was happy, but webmasters were confused.Īnd Microsoft sold IE with Windows, and made it better than Netscape, and the first browser war raged upon the face of the land. And Internet Explorer supported frames, and yet was not Mozilla, and so was not given frames. And so Microsoft made their own web browser, which they called Internet Explorer, hoping for it to be a “Netscape Killer”.

And Netscape supported frames, and frames became popular among the people, but Mosaic did not support frames, and so came “user agent sniffing” and to “Mozilla” webmasters sent frames, but to other browsers they sent not frames.Īnd Netscape said, let us make fun of Microsoft and refer to Windows as “poorly debugged device drivers,” and Microsoft was angry. In the beginning there was NCSA Mosaic, and Mosaic called itself NCSA_Mosaic/2.0 (Windows 3.1), and Mosaic displayed pictures along with text, and there was much rejoicing.Īnd behold, then came a new web browser known as “Mozilla”, being short for “Mosaic Killer,” but Mosaic was not amused, so the public name was changed to Netscape, and Netscape called itself Mozilla/1.0 (Win3.1), and there was more rejoicing.

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