Behind the Times
December 28th, 2007 by Kelson. Posted in Browsers, Opera and tagged for browser, netscape, Opera, store, WebI’ve been meaning to post these photos for a while now, but with the discussion on Netscape’s impending doom, I should post them now.
Back in February, I was wandering the aisles at Micro Center and noticed a couple of odd software titles on the shelf:
- Netscape Basics, a jewel-cased CD-ROM which contained Netscape Communicator 4.5 and boasted compatibility with Windows 95 and Windows 98.
- Opera for Windows, a boxed copy of I forget-which-version, but judging by the “New! Voice Enabled!” badge, it’s probably 8.0.
Keep in mind that this was February 2007. So that was an 8-year old Netscape box, and a 2-year-old Opera box. Netscape had been free for 9 years, and Opera had been free for 1½ years.
Someone had sensibly marked the Netscape CD down repeatedly, ending with a price tag of $0.42. I was half-tempted to buy it just to prove that I’d found it, but decided taking a picture would be better, since it wouldn’t clutter up my desk. Incredibly, no one had thought to mark down the Opera box. They were still asking $39.99 for it.
Did I mention pictures?
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