The internet is full of the ghosts of old services that, while once triumphant beacons of the world wide web, have fallen into mere shells of their former selves or have simply died entirely. The ...

SAN FRANCISCO – The Netscape Web browser may not be dead after all. After being written off by industry observers last year, America Online Inc. (AOL) plans to release an update to the Netscape ...

On December 15, 1994, Netscape Navigator 1.0 officially launched. It was made to be the first commercial web browser, and it helped introduce many people to the World Wide Web and the internet. A few ...

~ Undone by Microsoft, Netscape sold itself to AOL in a $10 billion deal completed in early 1999. NEW YORK -- Netscape Navigator, the world's first commercial Web browser and the launch pad of the ...

AOL LLCs Netscape unit is discontinuing its Navigator Web browser and urging users of the pioneering and once-dominant software to switch to its Firefox cousin. Ironically, the announcement of ...

When I started using the internet, there was no web. Only computer scientists and geeks were using the internet. Then, along came the web, and everyone could use it. Well, everyone who could master ...

Aug. 9 marks the 30th anniversary of the internet’s Big Bang moment, an inflection point in the emergent digital world. This Big Bang was the stunning stock market debut of Netscape Communications, ...

An historic name in software will effectively pass into history in February as AOL discontinues development and active support for the Netscape browser, according to an official blog. AOL will keep ...

The very concept of the web browser began with a humble piece of software called NCSA Mosaic, all the way back in 1993. It was soon eclipsed by Netscape Navigator, and later Internet Explorer, which ...