I Made Netscape 3.0.2 Compile on a Modern Linux Box. What I Found Was a Time Capsule of Broken Assumptions
Compiling a 30-year-old browser on modern Linux isn’t just nostalgia—it’s a forensic investigation into how software assumptions decay. Every patch reveals a forgotten dependency, a 32-bit assumption, a world without SSL. The real output is a map of computing history, not a working browser.