From: Rob Mayoff
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Subject: Re: Twas the night before IE4
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"From here, young Skywalker, you will witness the final destruction of
the Alliance - and the end of your insignificant rebellion."
On 30 Sep 1997, Phil Glockner wrote:
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| 'Twas the night before IE4, when all through the house
| Not a peripheral was stirring, not even a mouse;
| The shortcuts were placed on the desktop with care,
| In hopes that IE4 soon would be there;
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| The Webmasters were nestled all snug in their beds,
| While visions of Dynamic HTML danced in their heads;
| And many were asking if they had the final,
| While Microsoft kept insisting to wait for a while,
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| When out on the newsgroups there arose such a clatter,
| I sprang from the web to see what was the matter.
| Away to Outlook Express I flew like a flash,
| In hopes I did not miss the final dash.
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| Build 4.71.1712.6 my About Box did show
| But was this the final, I just had to know,
| When, what to my wondering eyes should appear,
| A link to Microsoft, the path seemed clear,
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| With one little mouse click, I became so sure
| I knew in a moment it must be IE4.
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| "Finally", I said, "Navigator is finished."
| and I watched the next day as Netscape marketshare diminished.
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| And all the OEMs and all the ISPs
| Made sure that IE4 took the thrown on PCs.
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| And a month later, Win3.1 and even the Mac
| Fell to the IE Majesty that Netscape lacked.
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| And in May Win98 came to be, and finally we knew
| Microsoft had made Netscape very very blue.
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| Now when I load up this greatest of browsers,
| I sit back and wonder, "How does Netscape feel resting under the flowers?"
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