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Netscape Navigator 9.0.0.6.exe

The last version of Netscape Navigator to be released before officially losing the “Browser Wars” of the 1990s to Microsoft’s Internet Explorer

The Subject of this Portrait

At the time this portrait was created, the subject was available online at archive.org/details/netscape-navigator-9.0.0.6_202303 

Screenshot of Netscape Navigator showing the Wikipedia homepage circa 2008. The text on the page begins, ‘Welcome to Wikipedia; Today’s featured article: The Flag of Armenia…’
Screenshot of Netscape Navigator 9 for Windows

Attributes

Subject Name
Netscape Navigator 9.0.0.6.exe
Subject Creation Date
02/20/2008
Subject Weight
22,334,153 bytes (22.8 MB)
Subject Location
archive.org/details/netscape-navigator-9.0.0.6_202303
Entities in Portrait
35 directories, 186 files
Entity Types in Portrait
AFF, CHK, CSS, DIC, DLL, DTD, EXE, GIF, HTML, ICO, INI, JAR, JS, LOG, MANIFEST, PROPERTIES, RDF, TXT, XML, XPT
Portrait Type
Group

Portrait Details

Screenshot of a complicated mass of algorithmically generated, predominantly purple though sometimes green, red, or gray pixel clusters floating against a dark purple background
Portrait detail
Detail image of a multicolored island of roughly equal distributions of small red, purple, gray, and pink cluster of pixels that combine to form an amalgam of such clusters; set against a dark purple background
Portrait detail
Detail image of a digitally organic looking island of connected purple, blue, magenta, and green pixels, seemingly directionally pointed from right to left, floating against a dark purple background
Portrait detail
Detail image of a vaguely scorpion-with-tentacles-shaped cluster of dozens of colors of pixels—from magenta to peach to red to lavender—against a deep purple background
Portrait detail

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Permalink
arweave.net/Z1pVHY4e_4pb8Oh7nABuxOre5CFsf-t2b56tR2eOM30
Format
image/png
Resolution
2880 x 5120
Transaction
viewblock.io/arweave/tx/Z1pVHY4e_4pb8Oh7nABuxOre5CFsf-t2b56tR2eOM30

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