End of an Era: Goodbye, Netscape
by Robert Mohns - February 29, 2008 / 10:40am View more articles
Today is the last day of Netscape.
Netscape Navigator, the successor to the NCSA Mosaic project that drove the web forward in leaps and bounds in the mid'90s, has reached the end of its life. AOL, current owner of Netscape, ends support tomorrow.
Over the past decade, it went from 90% marketshare to 0.6% market share, and in a market where web browsers are free, AOL just wasn't able to find a way to make money on the project anymore.
However, rising from the ashes of Netscape was the open source Mozilla project, which had a few releases of its own, and then spawned the Firefox browser and Thunderbird email projects.
Firefox today is one of the best available browsers — fast, extensible, cross platform, standards compliant, and free. If you haven't yet tried it, check it out.
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