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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 · 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.
Oct 14, 2014 · But, then Mosaic's inventors, Marc Andreessen, went out to build the one of the first commercial Web browsers, Netscape. This Web browser, which was available for Windows, Mac and Unix's X...
Feb 10, 2000 · Netscape launched the Navigator internet browser, the first mass market way for people to find their way around the net, in 1994. Microsoft, seeing the browser as a threat, launched its own...
3 days ago · Netscape Navigator wasn't able to keep up with the Internet Explorer, and rapidly lost market share. Netscape was acquired by America Online (AOL) in 1998 in a $4.2 billion deal. Microsoft's (MSFT ...
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T oday marks the 30th anniversary of the launch of Netscape Navigator, the first commercial attempt at making a web browser. Its release ushered in the first era of browser wars. Netscape was ...