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**Kristijntje** · 12-29-2007, 02:00 PM,

Quote:While internal groups within AOL have invested a great deal of time and energy in attempting to revive Netscape Navigator, these efforts have not been successful in gaining market share from Microsoft's Internet Explorer. Recently, support for the Netscape browser has been limited to a handful of engineers tasked with creating a skinned version of Firefox with a few extensions.

AOL's focus on transitioning to an ad-supported web business leaves little room for the size of investment needed to get the Netscape browser to a point many of its fans expect it to be. Given AOL's current business focus and the success the Mozilla Foundation has had in developing critically-acclaimed products, we feel it's the right time to end development of Netscape branded browsers, hand the reins fully to Mozilla and encourage Netscape users to adopt Firefox...

full obituary: http://blog.netscape.com/2007/12/28/end-...-browsers/

bargainbloodhound · 12-31-2007, 03:15 AM,

Netscape's IPO in 1995 ignited the dot com boom.

Flashback to 1995:

http://cgi.netscape.com/newsref/pr/newsrelease34.html
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/f.../index.htm

Wired discusses Netcape's IPO and the chain reaction it created:
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.08/tech.html