X-Git-Url: http://www.privoxy.org/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fsource%2Fhistory.sgml;h=29d138277ecae8e750f351d8cabe7edafb6fa01f;hb=4a39c88bb798b039e2db687ec49b85af1c67f233;hp=23c703f360665a6f662a75726b4e61a7fbd762cd;hpb=0428133610c525457cb16f7ac6a54203a2743d6c;p=privoxy.git diff --git a/doc/source/history.sgml b/doc/source/history.sgml index 23c703f3..29d13827 100644 --- a/doc/source/history.sgml +++ b/doc/source/history.sgml @@ -1,12 +1,10 @@ - A long time ago, there was the - Internet Junkbuster, - by Anonymous Coders and Junkbusters - Corporation. This saved many users a lot of pain in the early days of - web advertising and user tracking. + A long time ago, there was the Internet Junkbuster, + by Anonymous Coders and Junkbusters Corporation. This saved many users a lot of + pain in the early days of web advertising and user tracking. @@ -37,11 +33,9 @@ forcing ads on users, give up autonomy over their browsing, and for tracking them, keeps evolving. Unfortunately, the Internet Junkbuster did not. Version 2.0.2, published in 1998, was - (and is) the last official - release - available from Junkbusters Corporation. + the last official release, available from Junkbusters Corporation. Fortunately, it had been released under the GNU - GPL, + GPL, which allowed further development by others. @@ -57,10 +51,10 @@ Then, some - developers + developers picked up the thread, and started turning the software inside out, upside down, and then reassembled it, adding many - new + new features along the way. @@ -69,3 +63,8 @@ stable version, 3.0, was released August, 2002. + + + As of 2012 the Junkbusters Corporation's website (http://www.junkbusters.com/) + has been shut down, but Privoxy is still actively maintained. +