No More Netscape

Zeldman is daily reading for me, and he should be for you too. Today he posted that Netscape was finally kaput, AOL having laid off the rest of the Netscape staff. What surprises me is that it hasn't really registered on other sites such as MetaFilter, slashdot, boingboing, kottke.org, textism.com, megnut, &tc. &tc. &tc. Why is that? Is this such a non-event that only idiots like me are taking note? I know it's been more or less known that this would happen when AOL partnered with Micro$oft but still, it's an event worth noting isn't it? I can't help but feel a slight twinge upon hearing this news. Netscape 2.0, with it's cute little navigation themed design and spinning stars was my introduction to the web. It's a shame it is gone. To bastardize a popular quote, "Netscape is dead. Long live Netscape."

UPDATE 11:00am: I posted this at 10:30 today, and as of 10:57, Slashdot has a fresh post on this topic. I assume perhaps this will happen in the days to come. Just goes to show you that I'm ahead of the curve! Or something...