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Code Rush, the Mozilla Documentary from 2000

submitted by winkler1

1 decade 6 years 7 months ago

Independent filmmakers followed the Mozilla team from March 1998 to April 1999, as they worked to open Netscape Communicator's source code to the world, in a last-ditch effort to save the company. The result is an amazing snapshot of computer history, capturing the people that worked on it, the first internal beta test, the moment Jamie Zawinski uploaded the first builds publicly, the launch party, the all-hands meeting announcing the AOL acquisition, and so much more. It aired on PBS nationally in March 2000, the same month as the beginning of the dot-com collapse.

source (with a HQ H264 torrent) - http://waxy.org/2008/06/code_rush/

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Looking back on the success of the Mozilla foundation, this is an amazing documentary. I wish it would have followed through the crash right up to firefox.

^ yeah, it is pretty surprising.

about:jwz

Jamie Zawinski owns this place now:
http://www.dnalounge.com/

And in my picture with DAG, I'm wearing a DNA lounge T-shirt:
http://www.videosift.com/talk/Dag-Cow-Sift-Up

^ no longer there? ... http://www.jwz.org/gruntle/blowme.html

this video is a super awesome find

>> ^winkler1:
^ no longer there? ... http://www.jwz.org/gruntle/blowme.html

All I know about remaining are:

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ant

I miss the dotcom days.

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Oh, and we need a VS documentary.

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