X-Git-Url: http://www.privoxy.org/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fsource%2Fhistory.sgml;h=453574cd8bc9dac93cb3328204d5639801af3c22;hb=3032d1aecd9453c12fb2163c6477034ee327934e;hp=b0ccd5f92509733d336a313386905836d1c72561;hpb=cf6f490c16e43023cf59c08730535c5c96e3505b;p=privoxy.git diff --git a/doc/source/history.sgml b/doc/source/history.sgml index b0ccd5f9..453574cd 100644 --- a/doc/source/history.sgml +++ b/doc/source/history.sgml @@ -1,18 +1,16 @@ - 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. But the web, its protocols and standards, and with it, the techniques for 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. + Junkbuster did not. Version 2.0.2, published in 1998, was + the last official release, available from Junkbusters Corporation. Fortunately, it had been released under the GNU GPL, which allowed further development by others. @@ -57,15 +51,20 @@ 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. The result of this is Privoxy, whose first - stable version, 3.0, was released August, 2002. + 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. +