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Did you know that…?

…KDE has helped put robots on Mars?

We did! And we have the graphical evidence to prove it:

That is from the documentary Good Night Oppy, about the Opportunity Mars rover. In the scene you can see a NASA engineer troubleshooting the rover while in flight towards Mars from a KDE 3 workstation.

You can watch Good Night Oppy on Amazon Prime.

Submitted by Paul Brown

…KDE built the HTML engine that powers most web browsers?

It’s true!

KDE’s web engine was written back in 1998 – 1999 and was subsequently used as the basis for Apple’s Webkit and Google’s Blink engines. This means that most modern browsers, including Safari, Chrome, Chromium, Microsoft Edge, Opera, Vivaldi, and Brave, use KDE software at their core.

Indeed, if you ever check out your web server’s access logs, you will see “KHTML” on nearly every single line.

And, yes, the “K” in “KHTML” stands for “KDE”.

Submitted by Paul Brown

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