Code Rush: The Early Days of Netscape & Mozilla | Documentary (2000)

Code Rush is a 2000 documentary following a team of Netscape software engineers in Silicon Valley. It covers Netscape's last year as an independent company, from their announcement of the @Mozilla project until their acquisition by AOL. It mainly focuses on the last-minute sprint to open-source Mozilla browser by the deadline of March 31, 1998, and the impact on the engineers' lives and families as they attempt to save the company from ruin. We freaking love raw footage like this because it's a time capsule of the 90s tech scene (the grainy camcorder shots, oversized monitors, pizza-fueled all-nighters in cubicles, pre-Git/GitHub) and what feels like a company that recently transitioned from a small startup to a 2000+ corporate entity at the center of the spotlight and dot-com gold rush. It's also monumental because they bet on openness in a world that was still figuring out what the internet could be. Highly recommend for any new devs building in 2025. Knowing the history is crucial if you want to create the future. P.S. Firefox remains one of the few open-source browsers today (besides Brave). Rating: 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 Length: 56 min Director: David Winton License: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 --- About Codédex 👾 Welcome to the Codédex's YouTube channel! We are a learn to code platform with 500K+ happy users. Based in Brooklyn, NY. - Website: https://codedex.io ✨ - Twitter: https://twitter.com/codedex_io - Instagram: https://instagram.com/codedex.io #netscape #mozilla #siliconvalley #opensource #programming #developer #hacker #documentary