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Re:Elph wants to be the Netscape for cryptocurrency by meritt on Wednesday June 13, 2018 @02:52PM (#17305952)
Netscape launched a doomed portal in 1997 and relaunched in 1998 after they started losing significant browser share to IE. There were already plenty of better portals at the time (Yahoo, Excite, Lycos, Infoseek, Compuserve, Prodigy, AOL, etc) and Netcenter's only real traffic came via Netscape Navigator users because it was the default home page.

I don't understand the comparison to Netscape either. When Netscape was in it's prime, Elph's founder was 5 years old.

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Re:Elph wants to be the Netscape for cryptocurrency by marcofatica on Wednesday June 13, 2018 @03:10PM (#17306092)
Agreed, makes no sense to me either. So they want to be a first mover with the right idea, but poor execution and eventually lose out to all other competition? Sounds like a great business philosophy.
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