The Browser Wars
Now imagine what would happen if each hotel and apartment building on Fifth Avenue staked out a bit of Central Park and put a fence around it, limiting access to its own residents. It’s bad enough that those of us on park benches can only glimpse in to “exclusive” areas. But, there’s also the problem that folks from one hotel can’t get to the piece of park that belongs to the other hotel. Instead of a rich, public resource, teeming with roller-bladers, hot dog carts, and strolling elders, the park is divided into small, sterile, isolated lots.
In 1994, Netscape Communications put up the first fences on the Web in the so-called browser wars. In order to attract users, they threw universality to the wind and created a set of extensions ...
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