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Project Code Rush - The Beginnings of Netscape / Mozilla Documentary

Code Rush is a one-hour documentary following Netscape engineers in Silicon Valley through the company's last year as an independent firm. It covers the Mozilla open-source announcement, the frantic push to ready the source for release by March 31, 1998, and the toll on engineers' lives before the AOL acquisition.

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Why HN readers recommended it

HN commenters recommend it as an intimate, embedded look at late-90s web history and the spirit of building something important under pressure.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel
The Documentary Network
Topic
netscape and mozilla history
Format
documentary
Level
general
HN recommenders in dataset
13
HN mentions in dataset
19
Recommendation years in dataset
2015–2026

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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  • It was Netscape in 1999 he got flown out. Documented in Code Rush, which is an awesome documentary for anyone interested in the history of the Web: [VIDEO]

    jwatt on Hacker News · 2019-08
    In Contributing to the Mozilla code base

  • > Does anyone can tell anything positive about her? She's the reason Mozilla exists today as an independent, non-profit organization. On March 31, 1998 Netscape allowed the Mozilla code base to be open sourced under the Mozilla Project. [1][2] This was the result of an …

    e15ctr0n on Hacker News · 2020-04
    In Mitchell Baker Named CEO of Mozilla

  • There's a good Netscape documentary filmed during their last year leading up to the acquisition. When they were working to get the Mozilla source code released. [VIDEO]

    Reedx on Hacker News · 2018-11
    In AOL acquires Netscape in $4.2B deal (1998)

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