Project Code Rush - The Beginnings of Netscape / Mozilla Documentary

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Strong rec jwatt · 2019-08 · on “Contributing to the Mozilla code base”

It was Netscape in 1999 he got flown out. Documented in Code Rush, which is an awesome documentary for anyone interested in the history of the Web: [this video]

Strong rec e15ctr0n · 2020-04 · on “Mitchell Baker Named CEO of Mozilla”

> Does anyone can tell anything positive about her? She's the reason Mozilla exists today as an independent, non-profit organization. On March 31, 1998 Netscape allowed the Mozilla code base to be open sourced under the Mozilla Project. [1][2] This was the result of an intensive year-long effort to (1) remove proprietary source code that couldn't be open-sourced, (2) release the source code under a brand new license called the Mozilla Public License. This license was written principally by Mitchell Baker whose formal education is in law, with input from ESR, Linus Torvalds, VA Research, etc. [3] On July 14, 2003 AOL (which had acquired Netscape earlier) closed down the Netscape division and

Recommends Reedx · 2018-11 · on “AOL acquires Netscape in $4.2B deal (1998)”

There's a good Netscape documentary filmed during their last year leading up to the acquisition. When they were working to get the Mozilla source code released. [this video]

Recommends mtmail · 2019-07 · on “Ask HN: Books to recommend about early tech history (late 90s)?”

"The PayPal Wars". Also see [LINK] "Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days" "Project Code Rush", a 1h documentary ( [this video] )

Recommends lancebeet · 2019-10 · on “Ask HN: How was life for a regular dev during the dot com burst?”

I really recommend the 2000 documentary Code Rush[1] about Netscape's open sourcing of the browser and acquisition by AOL. It doesn't give any major insights into the industry, but does give a glimpse of what the culture was like back then. [1] [this video]

Recommends ragle · 2020-03 · on “Yelp to stop auto-creating fundraisers after outrage from business owners”

> and worked on a few important pieces of software before becoming a bar owner instead. Fun documentary: [this video]

Recommends Jugurtha · 2020-06 · on “Cloudflare TV”

Not parent, but I thought it were a TV stream that filmed Cloudflare teams solving problems. Similar to the documentary[1] "Aardvark'd: 12 Weeks with Geeks" where they show the life of interns developing an actual product at Fog Creek, the first paying customer, bug fixes, etc. I appreciated that one, as I did "Code Rush" [3], an embedded documentary following people at Netscape in 1998, even shows the moment Jamie Zawinski bringing the source code and uploading it, or moments where they needed Apple to greenlight using proprietary code, trying to reach Steve Jobs, and ending up implementing it. Another one I liked was "Downloaded", a documentary about Napster with the main people (Sean Fann

Recommends purerandomness · 2020-06 · on “Ask HN: Career and life advice for a 30yo”

There's a wide community of people feeling just like you, assembling in "Maker communities", as they call it. Good entry points are the IndieHackers podcast, and conferences like MicroConf (watch their conference talk recordings here, especially Patrick McKenzie's aka patio11 [0]) The basic idea is to create a sustainable job you love for yourself, the people that depend on you, and many others. The antithesis of "Our incredible journey", aka VC sellout. Once you've done this, you can do whatever you want. Build a game company. Pursue academia [1]. Join the demoscene, tour the world, join demo party competitions and write sick 64k intros. Commit to open source and help the Haiku project. Han