AOL will end dial-up internet service in September, 34 years after its debut — AOL Shield Browser and AOL Dialer software will be shuttered on the same day
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But there remain a few options to plug in your 56K (or slower) screeching modem into.
  • db2@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 day ago

    To be pedantic there really wasn’t a standalone browser, it was the Netscape (later Mozilla) suite which was browser email WYSIWYG HTML editor and an irc client. Firefox, then called Firebird, was them fully decoupling it from the suite.

    Also that’s why the email client is called Thunderbird, it was meant to be a separate but complimentary program to Firebird.

    The pedantic part is that it wasn’t an evolution. The suite never died, it’s still around. They have a shared Netscape/Mozilla Suite ancestor. It’s called SeaMonkey.