Question Four

Who is Jamie Zawinski? How is the role he played & are design principals he helped spread important to you?



Jamie Zawinski, also known as jwz, is a former computer programmer who was responsible for helping in the development of Mozilla Firefox , Netscape Navigator, XScreenSaver and other free software programs. He helped develop the idea of HYPERLINK and made the World Wide Web more functional for society.

Zawinski helped open up a whole new world for accessing information and making the internet more interactive. XScreenSaver for example, created in 1992, is a collection of screensavers that individuals can apply to their computers. The software is also the framework for blanking and locking computer screens, for businesses this acts as a good protection tool. XScreenSaver also makes it easy to add extra modules to your computer like hacks. Many people, including myself, use these simple applications as screensaver for our own computers.

Netscape was the first internet browser that I ever used, and it therefore has a lot of importance to me. It is where I first discovered how to search for information online and began communicating with others not in my direct community. In that way, it was the beginning of my social media career. However, this program is basically obsolete and was replaced by the more popular Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and Firefox. That being said, Netscape was essentially the pioneer of the internet browser, and it is because of its success that new and more advanced technology was created to make information searching easier.

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