X-Git-Url: http://www.privoxy.org/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fsource%2Fhistory.sgml;h=b0ccd5f92509733d336a313386905836d1c72561;hb=78b26ffb4d97eb6f2df892158e370a4d69252e9f;hp=c4fe429edca53b28d2b961d56fafe3e611fd602e;hpb=6cb41778d4fe473b3aa421acbee208a99f2df27b;p=privoxy.git diff --git a/doc/source/history.sgml b/doc/source/history.sgml index c4fe429e..b0ccd5f9 100644 --- a/doc/source/history.sgml +++ b/doc/source/history.sgml @@ -3,9 +3,9 @@ Purpose : Entity included in other project documents. - $Id: history.sgml,v 2.4 2006/07/18 14:48:50 david__schmidt Exp $ + $Id: history.sgml,v 2.6 2006/09/24 20:14:04 hal9 Exp $ - Copyright (C) 2001-2006 Privoxy Developers http://privoxy.org + Copyright (C) 2001-2009 Privoxy Developers http://www.privoxy.org/ See LICENSE. ====================================================================== @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ --> - Along time ago, there was the + 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 @@ -34,21 +34,20 @@ But the web, its protocols and standards, and with it, the techniques for - forcing ads on users, give up autonomy over their browsing, and + 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. Fortunately, it had been released under the GNU - GPL, which allowed further - development by others. + GPL, + which allowed further development by others. - So Stefan Waldherr started maintaining an - improved version of the - software, to which eventually a number of people contributed patches. + So Stefan Waldherr started maintaining an improved version of the + software, to which eventually a number of people contributed patches. It could already replace banners with a transparent image, and had a first version of pop-up killing, but it was still very closely based on the original, with all its limitations, such as the lack of HTTP/1.1 support, @@ -70,4 +69,3 @@ stable version, 3.0, was released August, 2002. -