Comments on: A decade on the Web with Netscape

As the ground-breaking browser turns 10, News.com looks back at its impact and ahead to a coming overhaul.
Where are Netscape's pioneers today?

[teakilla]

BROWSER

When will we ever get a browser that works and dont miss up with some thing ever day im so tired of browsers that thay say works but dont and then they have to fix it all the time aol needed a browsers that works every time i go to one certin place there browser come up error on aol search make me so mad get it fix for peat sakes i would love to see the perfict browser one that did not miss up just workes thanks

Netscape NOT the original

The people who developed Netscape developed Mosaic first.

to my knowledge, Mosaic was THE first browser with a GUI.

Mosaic NOT commercial

It's true that mosaic was the original browser.



"Welcome to NCSA Mosaic, an Internet information browser and World Wide Web client. NCSA Mosaic was developed at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. NCSA Mosaic software is copyrighted by The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (UI), and ownership remains with the UI."



- from the NCSA website.


Makes you think, doesn't it?


The browser was invented in a non-commercial environment, now we all use browsers and take them for granted, and the best browser today is an open-source non-commercial browser!


In spite of ALL THE M$ Money to prevent it- makes M$ L.IE more irrelevent every day.



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Mark Watson

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[pentium4forever]

Mosaic was reborn as Netscape

You are correct! I've been a big fan of Netscape, always preferred it over IE. I like the bookmarks management, it's easier and feels more flexible. Anyhow, I've been reading by Netscape co-founder, Jim Clark, his book called 'Netscape Time'. A group of people and Clark developed Mosaic and then wanted to find a Mosaic killer which turned into Netscape.

[JonyR]

Language support

Netscape did not support international languages, except the easy ones like French, Italian and German. IE had excellent international support. Why should the world be expected to have used Netscape?