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Remembering Netscape and The Birth of the Web

Posted by Zonk on from the back-in-the-day dept.

bigdaddyhale writes "Picture a world without Google, without eBay or Amazon or broadband, where few people have even heard of IPOs. That was reality just a decade ago. The company that changed it--bringing us into the Internet age--was a brilliant flash in the pan called Netscape. For the tenth anniversary of its IPO, FORTUNE recruited dozens of players to tell the story of Netscape in their own words."

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  1. Re:Ahem... Mosaic by deanj · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Let's not forget Imposter Boy:

    http://web.archive.org/web/20030212202753/http://w ww.chrispy.net/marca/gqarticle.html ....Unless you want to believe the marketing goons at Netscape.

    Kinda odd that the guy that was supposed to have written Mosaic single-handedly didn't write ANY code at Netscape.