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Netscape Mozilla Documentary 1998 - 2000 ProJect Code Rush - creative common licence

Code Rush is a 2000 PBS documentary following Netscape engineers during the year they open-sourced the browser as Mozilla. It shows the pressure and long hours of work in Silicon Valley at the height of the dot-com era.

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Why HN readers recommended it

HN recommends it as a great tech documentary on Mozilla's open-sourcing and the hard work of Netscape engineers.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel
znoopy2k
Topic
netscape and mozilla history
Format
documentary
Level
general
HN recommenders in dataset
5
HN mentions in dataset
6
Recommendation years in dataset
2011–2013

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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  • Excellent documentary on YouTube covering the year long open-sourcing of Mozilla, right up to the point of jwz leaving Netscape. [VIDEO] (via codinghorror: [LINK] )

    Isofarro on Hacker News · 2011-02
    In And so I'm giving up the Mozilla project - Jamie Zawinski (1999)

  • If you watch Code Rush, which I highly recommend, you'll see that they worked crazilly hard at Netscape back in the day: [VIDEO]

    redthrowaway on Hacker News · 2012-04
    In The origins of the blink HTML element

  • Pretty cool free documentary titled Code Rush that films Netscape engineers during the Mozilla source code release. [VIDEO]

    toponium on Hacker News · 2011-03
    In Jwz's Tent of Doom at Netscape in 1995

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