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Apr 3, 2014 · Though not technically the first internet startup per-se, Netscape was the first internet startup that mattered. It produced the first widely popular internet application, Netscape Navigator, and it grew symbiotically with the explosion in popularity of the World Wide Web.
Netscape was the first company to attempt to capitalize on the emerging World Wide Web. [17][18] It was founded under the name Mosaic Communications Corporation on April 4, 1994, the brainchild of Jim Clark who had recruited Marc Andreessen as co-founder and Kleiner Perkins as investors.
Aug 9, 2015 · A week after Netscape’s IPO, the software giant in Redmond, Washington released the first version of Internet Explorer, kicking off the browser wars of the ’90s.
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Apr 4, 2014 · Founders Jim Clark and Marc Andreesen heralded the dot-com boom as we know it, creating the first popular web browsers, Mosaic and later Netscape Navigator, and helping build new standards like...
- Ellis Hamburger
Aug 20, 2015 · Netscape was not the first Internet company, of course. It wasn’t even the first Internet IPO. Most people give that title to an early ISP, PSINet (although, cases can be made for RSA Security, CMGI, Network Associates, or even America Online, which all predated Netscape’s IPO).
Oct 24, 2024 · By the end of 1999, Microsoft had won the majority of the market. This shift in browser preference marked the start of a long spiraling death for Netscape (and eventually Internet Explorer as...
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Aug 9, 2015 · Software to make web surfing easy is only now being written in computer labs by students like Lou Montulli at the University of Kansas. Montulli is destined to become one of Netscape’s first ...
