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A complete walkthrough finding and actually reading the original source code behind major moments in computing history — Netscape's original browser, early Unix, and other codebases released or leaked into the historical record.
Facing a losing battle against Internet Explorer, Netscape made an unprecedented move for a major commercial software company: giving away the source code to its flagship product, and creating Mozilla to steward it.
Announced at Build 2019 and pushed to GitHub on May 3, 2019, Windows Terminal brought tabs and modern rendering to the Windows command line — while making both it and the underlying console host genuinely open source.
In September 2018, Microsoft re-released MS-DOS 1.25 and 2.11's source code on GitHub under the MIT license — a genuinely open release, four years after a 2014 version that was source-available but not truly open.