X-Git-Url: http://www.privoxy.org/gitweb/?p=privoxy.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fsource%2Fhistory.sgml;h=1606103ffc313816a085bf7b659b7f340d8120ee;hp=002f8792158a334388ed735c8608692f38fd0d17;hb=7a99a61ab1a3ce0401821aedcd06eba19a698b2a;hpb=e44a50f4c135a068c5b0333ad832fdfc134587bd;ds=sidebyside diff --git a/doc/source/history.sgml b/doc/source/history.sgml index 002f8792..1606103f 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 1.7.2.1 2002/06/05 23:10:43 hal9 Exp $ - Copyright (C) 2001, 2002 Privoxy Developers + $Id: history.sgml,v 2.8 2011/09/04 11:10:12 fabiankeil Exp $ + + Copyright (C) 2001-2009 Privoxy Developers http://www.privoxy.org/ See LICENSE. ====================================================================== This file used for inclusion with other documents only. ====================================================================== - 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. This file is included into: @@ -25,30 +25,25 @@ --> - In the beginning, there was the - Internet Junkbuster, - by Anonymous Coders and Junkbusters - Corporation. It 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 users to consume ads, give up autonomy over their browsing, and - for spying on them, kept 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. + 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 + 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, @@ -67,6 +62,11 @@ The result of this is Privoxy, whose first - stable release, 3.0, is due in June 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. +