Death of a legend: Netscape is no more

On one of the final days of 2007 we are forced to say good­bye to an old leg­end. On Decem­ber 29 2007, Amer­ica Online decided to pull the plug on the Netscape project. For many peo­ple, includ­ing myself, Netscape was a big part of dis­cov­er­ing the Inter­net in its early days. Netscape started in 1994 as a fork off the Mosaic Grand­fa­ther of all browsers (yes, I used that one too), and started the bat­tle for the web by tak­ing on Microsoft’s Inter­net Explorer. AOL bought the brand name and the tech­nol­ogy a while back, but the browser that had won the war had fought its last bat­tle.
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