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. Its current caretakers, Time Warner ...

The internet is full of the ghosts of old services that, while once triumphant beacons of the world wide web, have fallen into mere shells of their former selves or have simply died entirely. The ...

I covered the web in those days, and I beg to disagree. While Microsoft's top brass put the internet on the back burner, others realized that Microsoft needed something to offer the numerous users who ...

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Netscape Navigator, the storied Web browser that launched an Internet boom but is now a mere shell of its former self, will soon be put out of its misery. By Paul Bond, The Associated Press Netscape ...

Netscape's story reads like a proper fairy tale: takeovers, fierce and hostile competition, split-ups, a giant payout and even a dragon! While Netscape may now only be a sweet, sweet memory to those ...

Today, Internet Explorer might be the most well-known discontinued web browser, but the path to modern web giants like Chrome, Firefox, and Safari is filled with a rich history of innovation driven by ...

Back in the early days, the internet was a very different creature from what it is today. To most, it would be unrecognizable, consisting primarily of bulletin board systems with no multimedia, aside ...

America Online Inc. today released a preview version of a new Netscape Web browser that’s based on the open-source Firefox Web browser, but also supports Microsoft Corp.’s Internet Explorer browser ...

Aug. 9 marks the 30th anniversary of the internet’s Big Bang moment, an inflection point in the emergent digital world. This Big Bang was the stunning stock market debut of Netscape Communications, ...