![]() ![]() Shortly before AOL bought Netscape in 1998, the code base of Netscape Communicator 4 was released under an open-source license. Although other browsers were available at the time, Netscape was the first to be cross platform (and perform the same across platforms - which was an important distinction). The very first web browser I ever used was Netscape Navigator 1.something on a Power Mac 6200 (which some say was the worst Mac ever) way back in 1995. Even after Apple started shipping Internet Explorer for Mac with OS 8.1 and enabling it as the default browser, Netscape Navigator was still included, and at least in my experience, often preferred over IE for Mac. Long before Apple released Safari in 2003, Netscape was a pretty familiar application to scores of Mac users. Netscape, which at its peak in the mid-1990s held 80% of the web browser marketshare, and was a player in Browser Wars 1.0. OK, that was long enough.ĪOL, the parent company of this blog and Netscape, has announced that they will cease support for the current version of Netscape as of February 1, 2008. Let's take a moment of silence for the big N. Soon, Netscape Navigator - the first highly successful graphical web browser (yeah, yeah, I know Mosaic came before Netscape, but I don't remember seeing Mosaic floppy-disks bundled with my PC World and Macworld magazines in 1995, at least not under the name "Mosaic") - will be nothing more than a footnote in Internet history. ![]()
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