20 years ago, Netscape Navigator was born!

Here is some news that doesn't make us any younger... 20 years ago, on October 13, 1994, was born Netscape Navigator one of the very first mainstream Internet browsersArriving very early on in this nascent segment, it dominated the browser market throughout the 90s… before dying a slow and painful death on March 1, 2008 (the date of the end of its support).

Developed by a team from NCSA Mosaic, the browser that popularized the World Wide Web in the early 90s, Netscape was the first widely distributed commercial browser.

Its slow decline began in the late 90s with the arrival of Internet Explorer and the start of the " browser wars " (the browser war) ultimately won by Microsoft's browser.

Losing momentum at the end of the 90s, Netscape created the Mozilla organization on May 30, 1998 and released its code under a free license. Versions 6 to 9 of the browser are based on the free software Mozilla Firefox… Once forgotten, AOL Time Warner, then owner of the browser, advised former Netscape users to switch to Firefox, which is still among the current standards.

See the Netscape Navigator launch press release (October 13, 1994).