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Netscape Mozilla Documentary 1998 - 2000 ProJect Code Rush - creative common licence

znoopy2k · 171K views · 2009-07-15 · 56:09

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Overview

Code Rush is a 2000 PBS documentary following Netscape engineers during the year they open-sourced the browser as Mozilla. It shows the pressure and long hours of work in Silicon Valley at the height of the dot-com era.

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HN recommends it as a great tech documentary on Mozilla's open-sourcing and the hard work of Netscape engineers.

Recommended by 5 HN people across 5 months · HN mentions 2011–2013

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redthrowaway · 2012-04 · Strong recommendation

If you watch Code Rush, which I highly recommend, you'll see that they worked crazilly hard at Netscape back in the day: [VIDEO]

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Isofarro · 2011-02 · Strong recommendation

Excellent documentary on YouTube covering the year long open-sourcing of Mozilla, right up to the point of jwz leaving Netscape. [VIDEO] (via codinghorror: [LINK] )

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coldtea · 2013-12 · Recommendation

> It's a really interesting thought that this whole "learn to code" movement existed in some form seventeen years ago and somehow didn't take off when it seems like such an inevability right now. It seemed an inevetability back then too (and 10 years before that, with the first wave of the cheap PCs). Like now, it actually wasn't. > But I think it's one of those things we'll look back on like the 2010 iPad / 1993 Apple Newton and say "yeah coding trade schools were a cool idea back then, but the world just wasn't ready for it yet", and now that they've become 'cool' so to speak we're going to see that permanent explosion. Nope, it's just a fad now too, driven by the current bubble. It will subside with it. > I mean, I'm new to this game but did you even call it "coding" in 1996? You'd be surprised, but it was called coding in 1986, 1976 and even 1966. And it has been considered cool, in the right circles, ever since 1970 (circa). > I mean were startups even a thing in 1996? Sure they were. And Open Source. Everybody and his dog started a startup around that time, until they had a bubble bust circa 1999-2000. Seriously man, you have to check up on the history of this "coding" thing. You seem to be missing a lot of knowledge, that's not just folklore but also essential to a well groomed developer. Here's a 1998 documentary on the building of Mozilla: [VIDEO] Here's the Hacker's Dictionary: [LINK]

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