Netscape – Dominating once & Disappearing now
Netscape Navigator, one of the most popular web browsers once which had dominated the web browser market for a long time, has now been set to disappear for always, all after AOL has bought it. Owner AOL stopped support for the browser on Saturday, leaving it to fade away gracefully.
In the mid 1990s 90% of the users were using this browser but now this has decreased to the present 0.6% which is almost nothing, reason for this being the dominance of other browsers like Firefox and Internet explorer.
Instead, people from AOL are recommending the remaining 0.6% users to migrate to the other browsers from here. The first version of Netscape appeared in 1994, authored by Marc Andreessen, the man behind the Mosaic browser.
Shawn Hardin, President and CEO of Flock, Netscape said
“Netscape had a critical role in taking all of these zeros and ones – this very academic and technical environment – and giving it a graphical user interface where an average person could come online and consume information”
Saying bye to one of the best and recognized browsers of the web world.
March 3rd, 2008 at 5:27 pm
They are dead. I used them before but now only firefox. Firefox is one of the best browsers I’ve ever used to be honest.
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March 3rd, 2008 at 6:06 pm
Yes they are totally dead now! From domination to disappearance, just weird.
March 3rd, 2008 at 8:44 pm
Netscape was a browser i used to play with aroun 8 years back when i used to surf just for playing online games at Sify iWay centers and used to go for yahoo chat rooms
, now the world is behind firefox and netscape is history!
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March 4th, 2008 at 8:44 am
Though I never used Netscape in my life… I’ve heard that it’s a cool browser (Not cooler than FF though)..
Thats because when I entered the world of internet, FF was just in the boom and I thought let me try it… now I’m a proud user of FF
FF Rocks..
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March 6th, 2008 at 7:31 am
I am sure they will be back, and better. They rise once, and sure they will climb up again. But this time, maybe a little backup from some big big company(just guessing)
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March 6th, 2008 at 7:34 am
I don’t think so.. as netscape is not owned by themselves, but by AOL, who is in a stage of being sold probably to Yahoo.. check this -
http://www.thewwwblog.com/yahoo-cold-war-with-microsoft-and-deals-with-time-warner.html