The hottest news on the blogosphere at the moment is that Netscape, my first browser, will be discontinued. AOL who acquired Netscape back in 1998 for $4.2 billion, found there weren’t enough Netscape users.
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Statistics show that Netscape’s usage is less than 1%. If you look on W3Cschools for browser usage, Netscape doesn’t appear in 2007

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IE = Internet Explorer, Fx = Firefox, O = Opera, N = Netscape

Once referred to as a Renaissance company in 1999 is going to be discontinued in February 2008. Netscape did many awesome things on its journey. One of them was: Mozilla foundation which spun off from Netscape in 1998, with $2.3million. Firefox is part of the Mozilla foundation and generated $70 million in revenue from Google’s search deal in 2006.

Evaluation of Browsers:

Mosaic (1992) developed by Marc Anderssen >>
Renamed to Netscape (1994) >>
Mozilla Foundation formed (1998) >>
Mozilla 1.0 (2002) >>
Mozilla Firefox (2004) >>
Flock (2005)

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