X-Git-Url: http://www.privoxy.org/gitweb/?p=privoxy.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fsource%2Fhistory.sgml;h=29d138277ecae8e750f351d8cabe7edafb6fa01f;hp=cfc3a8136e923d167f10a38e75fbb1fce7751886;hb=a48266b9d0e59c53857b9edf8cd0d236d5bf95dc;hpb=8cd2361b1e96c1db32d3f6b496ceec66816b216d diff --git a/doc/source/history.sgml b/doc/source/history.sgml index cfc3a813..29d13827 100644 --- a/doc/source/history.sgml +++ b/doc/source/history.sgml @@ -1,18 +1,16 @@ - 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, @@ -58,16 +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 release, 3.0, is due late summer or early fall 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. +