Saturday, January 05, 2008

The Legacy of the Netscape Browser - Me Want Cookies

eWeek reports: "Web cookies have often been derided as invaders of Web surfers privacy, but this Netscape technology made it possible for sites to track visitor movements and helped enable key e-commerce capabilities such as shopping carts."

With the announcement that AOL is killing any new Netscape development. eWeek looks back on the some of the important developments (i.e.: cookies, SSL, etc.) that were popularized by the browser.

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