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Netscape Navigator, the world's first commercial web browser and the launch pad of the Internet boom, will be pulled off life support Feb. 1 after a 13-year run.
Netscape Navigator 6.0 is a nice browser, with weak e-mail and newsgroup functions. However, many of its flaws are shared by the competition.
Still, if you want to kick it old-school and use Navigator again, you can grab the beta from Netscape, pull out your 28.8k modem, put on a Goo Goo Dolls CD, and get back to the glory days of mid ...
Netscape Navigator, the first real commercial Web browser, launched on Oct. 13, 1994. And though I’ve written before about the danger of overselling techniversaries, this one stands out to me.
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.
Netscape Navigator 3.0, which was released in 1996 and is celebrating its 20-year anniversary, was the first to face serious competition in the form of Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0.
Although AOL, which had acquired Netscape, officially discontinued Navigator in 2008, the open-source Mozilla Project lived on, eventually giving rise to the popular Firefox browser.
AOL gobbled up Netscape Communications for $4.2 billion in 1998 and kept pumping out releases for the legendary browser until 2007, when Navigator was finally laid to rest.