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Tuesday, December 13, 2016

Netscape navigator

In 1994, Marc Andreessen joined w2oth computer industry veteran Jim Clark to form Netscape Corporation, one of the Web’s pioneering companies using $4 million seed capital provided by Clark.

Andreessen recruited many of his former colleagues at NCSA to help him write a new Web browser, which became known as Netscape Navigator. Navigator was faster and more graphically attractive than Mosaic.

Netscape Navigator was the first browser to gain widespread commercial acceptance. Navigator is extremely similar appearance and function to Mosaic.

By end of 1994, Navigator had gained 70 percent of the Web browser and Netscape was soon selling custom software to companies that wanted a presence on the Web.

The company offered shares to the public in August 1895 in one of the most lucrative and successful initial public offerings (IPOs) of stock in the history of US business; after one day of trading, the company was worth $4.4 billion.

In 1996 Netscape released Navigator 2.0 which supported Java’s embedded applet files, contained an easy-to-use email program and incorporated JavaScript, frames and plug-ins.

Netscape has been responsible for advances in HTML Netscape’s creative team introduced new ideas, web page tables and supported them with their web browser even before they became web standards.
Netscape navigator

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