With a colleague, the young software engineer authored the Mosaic web browser, which set the standard for cruising the information superhighway in the 1990s. Andreessen went on to cofound Netscape ...

AOL tried wringing value from its purchase. It paired with Sun Microsystems to launch the Sun‑Netscape Alliance (later ...

Netscape was not born in a vacuum. Its story began when two tech visionaries, James H. Clark, founder of Silicon Graphics, and Marc Andreessen, co-author of the Mosaic web browser, joined forces.

Two years beforehand, the Mosaic web browser launched and quickly became a popular application. Companies and individuals started building web sites that offered all sorts of content online.

On December 15, 1994, Netscape Navigator 1.0 officially launched. It was made to be the first commercial web browser, and it helped introduce many people to the World Wide Web and the internet.

It's a red letter week for computer buffs. Ten years ago, a group of computer students created the program that opened up the World Wide Web to the masses. It was called Mosaic and it became the ...