Editing Proxomitron (section)

== History ==
The first{{Citation needed|date=April 2022}} public release of Proxomitron (Naoko 2) was in 1999<ref name="released">{{cite web| url=https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/comp.archives.ms-windows.announce/J_XPZ15iakY/AFCbzPru_7oJ |title=proxn2i.zip – Proxomitron: Custom filter webpages as viewed| author=Scott R. Lemmon| publisher=[[Usenet]]| date=1999-03-23| accessdate=2017-06-03}}</ref> as a download via [[Simtel]]. 
Releases that followed were all named "Naoko" (for [[Naoko Yamano]]) followed by a release number. (Release versions were 3, 3(b), 4.0, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5.)

The May 2003 release of Naoko 4.5 was followed very quickly by the removal of the program's web site and Lemmon's declared termination of continued development of Proxomitron.<ref>{{cite web| author=Iain Cheyne| url=https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/alt.comp.freeware/QsV5Be0bI6k/h_iiiotAQlkJ| title=The message from Scott| publisher=[[Usenet]]| date=2003-06-02| accessdate=2017-06-03| quote=Yes, I pulled the site down...I was hurt that Arne attacked me personally...As Arne said, this isn't the first time I've considered giving it all up. This is just the first time I've actually done it. I apologize, I'm not perfect - all I was trying to do was the best I can. However, if a change I considered so minor can get me labeled as a "betrayer of trust" from someone I've long regarded with respect, then perhaps I shouldn't be doing this at all...There are many, many reasons for me to give it up - not just this. In this day and age I even worry someone might sue me because of it. I have to ask myself why devote so much of my life to something when it can illicit this kind of reaction from people. I've never asked that *anyone* use the program, and I'm surely not offended if people wish to use something else.}}</ref> A subsequent release, however, was made in June 2003, primarily to revert a new behavior related to remote proxy connections that had been designed into the May version.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.proxomitron.info/files/may-vs-june.html |title=PROXOMITRON 4.5 -- May vs. June| publisher=proxomitron.info| accessdate=2017-06-03}}</ref>

After the release of Naoko 4.5 (June), development was permanently discontinued and the official site had the message:

{{vtext-css3|{{lang|ja|消えました}}}}

This reads {{nihongo||消えました|kiemashita}} in [[Japanese language|Japanese]] and translates to "it went out" or "gone." The original home webpage is no longer accessible. Lemmon's [[Web mirror|mirror]] [[URL redirection#Load balancing|redirect]]{{Broken anchor|date=2024-03-24|bot=User:Cewbot/log/20201008/configuration|reason= The anchor (Load balancing) [[Special:Diff/166707673|has been deleted]].}} was changed to display a different final message from the author a short time later.

The author, Scott R. Lemmon, died 1 May 2004 aged 36.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://castlecops.com/article-5228-nested-0-0.html| title=Scott Lemmon, Proxomitron Author, Deceased May 1st 2004| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011060901/http://castlecops.com/article-5228-nested-0-0.html| publisher=castlecops.com| date=2004-07-16| accessdate=2017-06-03| archive-date=2008-10-11}}</ref>