{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Dead Internet Almanac","title":"AOL Cut Netscape Loose. Mozilla Kept Walking.","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":491,"description":"In July 2003, as AOL dismantled what remained of Netscape’s browser operation, Mozilla was given a lifeboat: a new nonprofit foundation with money, trademarks, domains, equipment, and a mission to keep the open web’s tools alive outside the control of any single company. What looked like dry incorporation paperwork was really a transfer of custody for the code, culture, and ideals that had grown out of Netscape Navigator — once the front door to the web, now a fading brand in the shadow of Internet Explorer.\n\nThis episode follows the strange afterlife of the first browser war, from Microsoft’s victory and AOL’s retreat to the creation of the Mozilla Foundation under Mitchell Baker, Mitch Kapor, and a community of open-source contributors. It’s the story of how a wounded browser project became a public-interest institution — and how the “Chief Lizard Wrangler” helped preserve a space where the web could still be built in the open.\n\nRead the original article: https://medium.com/@dia_91230/aol-cut-netscape-loose-mozilla-kept-walking-65e8177373ce\n\nSubscribe to The Dead Internet Almanac: https://buttondown.com/dead-internet-almanac","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/0T0Z9X69zNfYqQ8Z8xV4SB06Vk-a5Z4I4iH6CPQMsiQ/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8yYmJj/OTNlYmM2M2UxYmZl/MDBjZTRiMDlhZTRm/MjI4NC5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}