Netscape Navigator bows out after almost 15 years
Posted 3 March 2008 at 2:16PM by Hannah Gilchrist in Connecting to the Internet
For many it was a significant part of their first ever web experience, but now after nearly 15 years as a web browser, Netscape Navigator faces it's final shut down.
The internet tool, owned by AOL, will no longer be supported for use with all users asked to upgrade as soon as possible.
As many as 90% of web users used the navigator in the mid-1990s and despite a desperate bid to resurrect the aging gem, it could not compete with it's modern rivals.
But could you have ever predicted the impact of the web when you first heard the dial-up tone 15 years ago?
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2. At March 3, 2008 3:40 PM, anjanesh wrote:
started on navigator way back in 1990's before the times of IE .used it to view live feed from the Mars rover from the NASA website .
firefox uses the DNA from the orginal Navigator.
back then ; it was fashionable to be online and having an email address was the ' in thing' .Gosh ! how things have changed.
3. At March 4, 2008 8:16 AM, Luke Beesley wrote:
Wow, that's a browser I never even thought about anymore.
4. At March 4, 2008 12:01 PM, Hulk 'The Real American' Hogan wrote:
This is an end of an era! Goodbye Netscape, you will be truley missed like the true hulkster you are!
- Hulk Hogan
5. At March 4, 2008 7:23 PM, Mike wrote:
"For many it was a significant part of their first ever web experience"
I must be one of the few, then - for me it was NCSA Mosaic...
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