Netscape is Dead – A sad end to a great product
AOL is going to remove support for Netscape browser starting from 1st of February 2008. Unsurprisingly very few bloggers seem to have taken note of the event, we have moved beyond Netscape long time back.
A really sad end for a product that made the internet possible. Before netscape, internet was used by geeks alone. A large number of complex protocols, incompatible software and non-existent graphics meant that ordinary folks simply did not have the ability or the desire to go online. However Netscape changed all that by making it possible for ordinary folks to access the internet. It may be hard to believe but at one point of time 80% of all internet users used Netscape.
The rest is history. Microsoft realized the potential of the browser. Once Microsoft had bundled the internet explorer with windows, netscape did not have a chance in hell.
Netscape will not be missed by many. But it will always be remembered as one product that made internet a possibility.
You can read the Netscape blog here
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