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the secret history of the about:jwz url. © 2011 Jamie Zawinski <jwz@jwz.org> I realized recently that while I have written about the history of the about:authors URL, I have never explained the history of the about:jwz easter egg. Well, I guess it's been long enough, so now it can be told. The about: URL had been in the Netscape browser from the beginning; it displayed the splash screen with a log

Greetings, people of the future! If someone has linked you to this page, they're probably trying to con you. Don't fall for it. In fact, stop reading right now. Don't read this page. Go read this page instead. I wrote this twenty years ago. Now is not then. You are being robbed. -- Jamie Zawinski, 2014. the netscape dorm. © 1994-1996 Jamie Zawinski <jwz@jwz.org> Here are some excerpts from my diar

resignation and postmortem. © 1999 Jamie Zawinski <jwz@jwz.org> April 1st, 1999 will be my last day as an employee of the Netscape Communications division of America Online, and my last day working for mozilla.org. Netscape has been a great disappointment to me for quite some time. When we started this company, we were out to change the world. And we did that. Without us, the change probably would

java sucks. © 1997-2000 Jamie Zawinski <jwz@jwz.org> I think Java is the best language going today, which is to say, it's the marginally acceptable one among the set of complete bagbiting loser languages that we have to work with out here in the real world. Java is far, far more pleasant to work with than C or C++ or Perl or Tcl/Tk or even Emacs-Lisp. When I first started using Java, it felt like

message threading. © 1997-2002 Jamie Zawinski <jwz@jwz.org> In this document, I describe what is, in my humble but correct opinion, the best known algorithm for threading messages (that is, grouping messages together in parent/child relationships based on which messages are replies to which others.) This is the threading algorithm that was used in Netscape Mail and News 2.0 and 3.0, and in Grendel

X Selections, Cut Buffers, and Kill Rings. © 1997, 2002 by Jamie Zawinski <jwz@jwz.org> This document began as a description of how Emacs and XEmacs deal with copying and pasting text under X11. However, I've noticed that a lot of people are being referred here to answer more general questions of how copying and pasting work under X, or, more specifically, how they should implement copying and pas

Tabs versus Spaces: An Eternal Holy War. © 2000 Jamie Zawinski <jwz@jwz.org> The last time the tabs-versus-spaces argument flared up in my presence, I wrote this. Gasoline for the fire? Maybe. I think a big part of these interminable arguments about tabs is based on people using the same words to mean different things. In the following, I'm trying to avoid espousing my personal religion here, I ju

a collection of free screen savers for X11, macOS, iOS and Android by Jamie Zawinski and many others. XScreenSaver is the standard screen saver collection shipped on most Linux and Unix systems running the X11 Window System, since its first release in 1992. On X11 systems, XScreenSaver is two things: it is both a large collection of screen savers; and it is also the framework for blanking and lock

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Emacs Timeline. by Jamie Zawinski <jwz@jwz.org> written:   8-Mar-1999 updated: 29-Oct-2007 Someone prodded me into drawing up a timeline of the Emacs family tree. Let me know if you have any additions/corrections. This isn't intended to be a complete list of everything that has ever called itself Emacs -- as Craig Finseth's periodic posting of emacs implementations shows, that would be much larger