Netscape Navigator is twenty years old. The web browser from the company Netscape Communications Corporation was for a long time the dominant browser, but had to after the ‘browseroorlog’ ultimately, several recognise in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer.
The code of Netscape Navigator-versions is based on Mosaic, that is seen as the ‘mother of all browsers’. The developers, who are the first versions released as Mosaic Navigator, built a browser that was relatively easy to use. Furthermore, it was Netscape Navigator for non-commercial purposes free of charge and it was on several operating systems available.
For the processing of html documents was by Netscape, the Gecko engine built. In addition, the company developed many technologies that became commonplace in the browserwereld, such as the implementation of cookies, javascript and frames.
The estimation of developers such as Marc Andreessen that browsers are one of the most important parts of future operating systems would form, turned out to be correct: Netscape Navigator, later succeeded by Netscape Communicator with extras like an html editor, and an e-mail and usenetclient, quickly grew into the most commonly used web browser.
The rapid growth of Netscape did not go unnoticed by Microsoft. The company launched Internet Explorer on the market and combined this with Windows. This was the browseroorlog born. With the release of IE 5.0 did Microsoft’s dominant position of Netscape to break. Microsoft was years later to be fined because it is during the browseroorlog guilty of illegal business practices and abuse of dominant position.
In the late nineties lost Netscape the browseroorlog. The company decided that the code is open source, and the Mozilla project, years later, Firefox, chrome developed on the basis of the code and the Gecko engine. In 1999 bought internetreus AOL Netscape, then some versions of the browser were released. The power of IE, however, was to become great and eventually, it was the support by AOL on march 1, 2008 discontinued.
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