In praise of Netscape Navigator


	In praise of Netscape Navigator

ghiberti

3-1-2008 4:10 PM

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browser, netscape, navigator, firefox, flock, int

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/3ab8dbc5-8554-4df6-9d7d-f7d0a1db09d2/3512CFB5-EA22-4609-8533-09975CEBC5BF/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/mar/01/internet" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/mar/01/internet" style="font-size: 11px;">www.guardian.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/mar/01/internet">The internet bubble started pumping up when Netscape was launched on the market. During its first day of trading, August 9 1995, its shares came close to tripling in value. Irrational exuberance famously followed, but there was good reason for the excitement about Netscape's Navigator. The easy-to-use internet browser gave ordinary human beings their first-ever window on to the world wide web.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/mar/01/internet">Before long Explorer was everywhere, and Navigator withered away. In 1998 Netscape was bought out, in 2003 many of its staff were laid off, and - as of today - Navigator is no longer being supported at all. But out of its ashes Firefox has arisen, developed by redundant Netscape staff. Along with other browsers, such as Flock, it is giving web users a choice. Its hour may have passed, but Navigator should be remembered with awe for having untangled the web.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/3512CFB5-EA22-4609-8533-09975CEBC5BF/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>