Today marks the end of an era.

Netscape Communicator was the first graphical web browser that I ever used. Mosaic may have come first, but for me and countless others, Netscape was our introduction to the “true” web. I still remember the day that I loaded the 3.5″ floppy(s?) into the old Macintosh Quadra. Goodbye text only bbs’s!

So it is with a sad regard that I say goodbuy….
RIP: Netscape Navigator (1994-2008)
Let’s not dwell on your later years at AOL… Instead let’s remember the good times, when you had over 90% of the market share.

You shall always live in our thoughts and on http://browsers.evolt.org/.

Mozilla (the basis for the netscape, aol and firefox browsers) celebrates its 10th birthday today.

Ten years ago, Netscape announced it would release to the public the code of its flag ship product, Netscape Communicator 5, making it an open source product….

Over time, Mozilla would become the name of the open source project, AOL would buy Netscape and Internet Explorer would get up to 90%+ of market share leading to the worst period in web browsers’ history…

read more @ mozilla.org