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index b0ccd5f9..767a0331 100644
--- a/doc/source/history.sgml
+++ b/doc/source/history.sgml
@@ -2,17 +2,17 @@
File : $Source: /cvsroot/ijbswa/current/doc/source/history.sgml,v $
Purpose : Entity included in other project documents.
-
- $Id: history.sgml,v 2.6 2006/09/24 20:14:04 hal9 Exp $
- Copyright (C) 2001-2009 Privoxy Developers http://www.privoxy.org/
+ $Id: history.sgml,v 2.9 2012/06/19 12:49:25 fabiankeil Exp $
+
+ Copyright (C) 2001-2009 Privoxy Developers https://www.privoxy.org/
See LICENSE.
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This file used for inclusion with other documents only.
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- If you make changes to this file, please verify the finished
+ If you make changes to this file, please verify the finished
docs all display as intended.
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@@ -25,21 +25,17 @@
-->
- 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 +53,20 @@
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.
+