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Nos primórdios da Internet, as opções de navegadores eram limitadas, com MicrosoftO Internet Explorer reinando supremo. No entanto, surgiu um player significativo que pretendia desafiar esse domínio – a Netscape.Introdução ao Netscape, o navegador alternativoA jornada da Netscape começou com a fundação da Mosaic Communications Corporation em abril de 1994, liderada pelos visionários Marc Andreessen e Jim Clark. Esta empresa esteve na vanguarda dos primeiros dias da World Wide Web e decidiu aventurar-se no mundo dos navegadores web.Inicialmente conhecido como Mosaic Netscape, o navegador estreou em outubro de 1994. Porém, logo em seguida sofreu uma mudança de nome, passando a ser o renomado Netscape Navigator. Seu objetivo principal era enfrentar o Internet Explorer da Microsoft, que vinha junto com o Windows 95.Crescimento e fim do programaCom o tempo, o Netscape Navigator ganhou aceitação entre o público em geral. Um momento crucial ocorreu em 1998, quando a Netscape fez a transição para um projeto de código aberto sob a fundação Mozilla. Reconhecendo o desafio de superar a Microsoft, a liderança da Netscape tomou a decisão estratégica de lançar o seu código-fonte, na esperança de atrair uma base de utilizadores maior.A popularidade do navegador levou à sua aquisição pela AOL (então America Online) por aproximadamente US$ 4.2 bilhões em 1998. AOL posteriormente lançou o Netscape 6.0, baseado no Mozilla 0.6. Seguiram-se várias versões, incluindo uma adaptada para o mercado corporativo. No entanto, a Netscape nunca conseguiu destronar o domínio da Microsoft.O ponto de viragem ocorreu quando a Microsoft foi considerada culpada de

Netscape Navigator was the dominant web browser during the early years of the Internet. Developed and marketed by Netscape Communications Corporation as an easy to use product, Netscape Navigator is credited with bringing the Internet within easy reach of the average computer user. Although proprietary software, Navigator was offered for free download and was often included with ISP software packages. As no web browser was included with either Microsoft Windows nor Macintosh operating systems at the time, Navigator was often the only available choice. As the success of Navigator was dependent upon its exclusivity, the inclusion of Internet Explorer in Windows led to a rather speedy demise in Navigator's dominance.While the first version of Netscape Navigator adhered very strictly to World Wide Web standards, later versions pushed the limits of network technology. Proprietary extensions to the HTML markup language and various interface innovations made the browser much more functional that the published standards allowed. However, webpages that took advantage of these proprietary features did so at the price of standards compatibility and thus those sites did not display properly on other web browsers. Notably, Microsoft's Internet Explorer also included many proprietary extensions that provided similar functionality, but were not compatible with the Netscape extensions. Thus, websites were forced to choose between either Netscape or IE, or to forfeit advanced features such as image support, JavaScript, and cookies. As Internet Explorer gained market share due to its inclusion in Windows, more and more webmasters coded for IE. Thus, more and more

A time line traces key events in the transformation of Netscape from an Internet-browser upstart to an aggregator of content and services on the Web.A time line traces key events in the transformation of Netscape from an Internet-browser upstart to an aggregator of content and services on the Web.1 March 1994: Jim Clark and Marc Andreessen begin talks on forming a new company.April 1994: The company (first named Electric Media) is founded by Clark and Andreessen.May 1994: Electric Media changes its name to Mosaic Communications.November 1994: Mosaic Communications changes its name to Netscape Communications.December 1994: Netscape Navigator, Netscape Commerce, and Communications Servers ship.August 1995: Netscape's IPO is one of the hottest stock-market debuts ever.December 1995: Netscape and Sun Microsystems announce JavaScript.11 March 1996: America Online agrees to include Netscape in every copy of its Internet-access software.12 March 1996: AOL strikes a deal with Microsoft, giving Internet Explorer the coveted spot as the service provider's browser.May 1996: Netscape announces Netscape Navigator 3.0.October 1996: Netscape announces its server product, SuiteSpot 3.0.October 1996: Netscape becomes enterprise-software purveyor, rolling out intranet- and Internet-server software packages.11 June 1997: Netscape releases Communicator.August 1997: It releases Netcaster, push-media software.18 August 1997: Netscape announces an initiative to retain its browser share by forming 100 industry partnerships. Its new partners agree to package the Navigator browser -- unbundled from the Communicator suite -- with their products. The streamlined Navigator 4.0 includes Netcaster, basic email, and calendar software.3 September 1997: It unveils the Netcenter Web site, transforming the corporate Netscape.com into a site featuring news, software, and chat groups.22 January 1998: It frees Communicator 5.0's source code over the Net.23 February 1998: Mozilla.org launches. A dedicated internal team and the Web site guide the open source code to developers.31 March 1998: Netscape releases programming source code for its Communicator software.10 April 1998: Mozilla.org posts the first version of its source code modified by outside developers.18 May 1998: The US Justice Department and 20 state attorneys general file an antitrust case alleging Microsoft abuses its market power to thwart competition, including Netscape.29 June 1998: Netscape debuts Netcenter 2.0.28 September 1998: According to a study by a market researcher, Netscape cedes browser-share lead to Microsoft's Internet Explorer.19 Octpber 1998: Netscape releases Communicator 4.5, the latest version of its browser software. It features Smart Browsing, Roaming Access, and RealNetworks' RealPlayer 5.0.22 November 1998: AOL is in negotiations to buy Netscape in an all-stock deal.

Viewing of this web site, and take advantage of secure interactivity with our site. If you are not using Netscape Navigator or Microsoft Internet Explorer you may wish to download either one now. Click on the one you want to download and follow the instructions. When sending any application information online this site automatically switches to a secure mode. This is evident by the "https" that will appear in the url as opposed to "http." If you are using Internet Explorer you will see a locked pad lock at the bottom of your screen when you are in a secure mode and an unlocked pad lock when you are in an insecure mode. Microsoft ExplorerIn Microsoft Explorer when browsing securely the browser will display a locked padlock icon at the bottom of its open window, which looks like this: Netscape NavigatorIn Netscape Navigator when browsing securely the browser will display a locked padlock icon at the bottom left of its open window, which looks like this: In Netscape Navigator when browsing insecurely that padlock appears unlocked, like this:

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Netscape has been reinvented several times since its acquisition by AOL in November 1998 — and all of these efforts have essentially failed. In addition to a browser, the Netscape brand had been associated with a portal and discount dial-up ISP (and still is) before Jason Calacanis turned the site into a Digg clone in late 2006. In retrospect, TechCrunch says, the Calacanis effort was a failure. (Calacanis left AOL in November, 2006 and launched Mahalo in May, 2007.)TechCrunch reports comScore numbers that chronicle 2007 as a year of traffic in decline for Netscape as a “social voting” site.As most people recall, Netscape created the first commercially available Web browser in 1994, charging prices that ranged from $49.95 to $89.95 for its flagship Navigator product and a suite of other software. In 1995 the company went public in one of the Internet’s first big IPOs. But feeling threatened, Microsoft developed Internet Explorer (IE) and then began giving it away for free with Windows 95, undermining Netscape’s core business model.As free (and bundling with the OS) proved to be too much of a temptation for people, Netscape made the decision to offer Navigator for free by early 1998. (At that time, the company also switched to open source code and started the Mozilla project.) But by the time Navigator was forced to go free, IE had caught up with and was starting to surpass Netscape’s market share. Later that year, Netscape was acquired by AOL, then a partner, in a stock transaction worth an estimated $4.2 billion.What happened next was remarkable. Netscape was still arguably one of the Internet’s powerhouse brands at the time of the acquisition. AOL, then too a dominant player, was using IE as the core of its own AOL browser. AOL continued to rely on IE, rather than switching to the Netscape browser. But there’s also a complicated legal history here, which clouds the story somewhat (involving a suit between AOL and Microsoft that gave the former a royalty free license to IE, as well as a cash settlement of alleged anti-trust abuses). Nonetheless, AOL essentially neglected the Netscape brand and failed to promote it among consumers at a critical time. It thus became a wasting asset.Accordingly, the considerable brand equity that Netscape had started to leak out, and by the time Calacanis got hold of it in 2006 there was virtually nothing left. One could thus argue that his effort to reinvent the brand was worthy, even if the Digg clone concept was uninspired. Propeller.com: New Home For The Netscape Social News Site covers how the clone was removed from the Netscape brand in September.The Firefox browser, based on the Mozilla/Netscape code, has slowly gained market