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Netscape Navigator 3.0 was released 30 years ago today.

As I mentioned in my post on the 2.0 anniversary, what you knew of as "3.0" had internally been slated to be the "2.1" bugfix release, to be soon followed by a 3.0 release based on the Collabra...
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Dial-up ISP tale 

Suddenly remembering that I saved more than one dial-up customer from meeting the same fate with the "as seen on TV" MagicJack devices sold at the nearby Walley World, shortly after Vonage faded from TV screens.

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Dial-up ISP tale 

Suddenly remembering that time I had to explain to a customer why their dial-up Internet access quit working.

It wasn't because they got Vonage. Not per se.

Remember those woo-hoo "people do stupid things" commercials? Yeah, them. Vonage is a VoIP service which, like all VoIPs, needs high-speed Internet access to work.

It was because they canceled their expensive telco/DSL bundle in favor of the cheaper Vonage for phone calls and dial-up Internet.

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