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Project Code Rush - The Beginnings of Netscape / Mozilla Documentary

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Code Rush is a one-hour documentary following Netscape engineers in Silicon Valley through the company's last year as an independent firm. It covers the Mozilla open-source announcement, the frantic push to ready the source for release by March 31, 1998, and the toll on engineers' lives before the AOL acquisition.

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HN commenters recommend it as an intimate, embedded look at late-90s web history and the spirit of building something important under pressure.

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