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Netscape was one of the first widely-adopted Internet browsers.Wired: Crank It Up (August 2000) Although it quickly lost its majority market share with the introduction of Microsoft's Internet Explorer, the browser continued to live until February 1, 2008 when it was announced support and development were to end for the product.
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- Purchased by AOL in 1998CNET News: AOL Buys Netscape for $4.2 Billion (November 24, 1998)
- Founders: Marc Andreessen and Jim Clark
- Founded: 1994 (as Mosaic Communications Corporation)
- Started the open source Mozilla project in 1998
- The Netscape.com homepage was relaunched as a social news web site in 2006
- Netscape.com became Propeller in 2007
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Company Beginnings
Netscape was one of the first companies to capitalize on the emergence of the World Wide Web in the mid 1990s. The company went on to launch one of the most successful IPO's of the time and continued to develop its products. However, they were not able to keep up with Microsoft, who eventually helped to diminish Netscape's browser market share.Wired: Crank It Up (August 2000)Acquisition by AOL
On November 24, 1998 it was announced that America Online would acquire Netscape in a 100% stock deal valued at $4.2 billion.CNET News: AOL Buys Netscape for $4.2 Billion (November 24, 1998) AOL went on to integrate some Netscape services into their properties and continued to develop the Netscape browser until February 1st, 2008.Categories
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Netscape on Amazon
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JavaScript Pocket Reference - $7.99
The JavaScript Pocket Reference, 2nd Edition, provides a complete overview of the core JavaScript language and client-side scripting environment, as well as quick-reference material on core and client-side objects, methods, and prope...
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Netscape Time: The Making of the Billion-Dollar Start-Up That Took on Microsoft - $14.95
From the cofounder of Netscape and the inspiration for Michael Lewis's bestselling The New, New Thing, comes a thrilling insider's account of the race to beat Microsoft for control of the Internet. Netscape was a tiny sta...
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Speeding the Net: The Inside Story of Netscape and How It Challenged Microsoft - $25.00
Combining the hacker savvy of Tracey Kidder's "Soul of a New Machine" with the riveting drama of the first great corporate conflict waged on the turf of cyberspace, "Speeding the Net" tells the story of how a crew of talented computer jocks...
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Running a Perfect Netscape Site - $49.99
A complete reference to creating an Internet site includes planning, creating an E-Mail server, creating a News server, creating an FTP Server, creating a Gopher server, creating a WWW server, integration, and site maintenance and upg...
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