AOL Pulls Plug on Netscape Web Browser

Netscape Navigator, the world's first commercial Web browser and the launch pad of the Internet boom, will be pulled off life support Feb. 1 after a 13-year run.

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AOL to Revamp Its Netscape.com Web Portal

AOL is revamping its Netscape.com Web portal to give visitors a greater role in determining what news articles get readily shown to others.

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It has been 15 years since Marc Andreessen developed the Netscape Internet browser that introduced millions of people to the Internet. Marc Andreessen in 1996. Netscape was the dominant Web browser until Microsoft introduced Internet Explorer.

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It all began 20 years ago with a frustrated 29-year-old programmer who had a passion for order. More Articles

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AFTER dating for nearly three years, Kristy Hinze, 28, the host of Project Runway Australia and granddaughter of the late Russ Hinze - Queensland's original minister for everything - is set to walk down the aisle and marry the American billionaire Jim Clark, 64, the internet pion …

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While we're transfixed by the presidential election, in the world of high tech another duel between two well-funded, take-no-quarter candidates has just emerged … and in the long run the impact on our daily lives may be nearly as great -- and perhaps even sinister.

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Marc Andreessen, whose first start-up, Netscape Communications introduce the consumer web to millions, thanks to its Netscape browser, seems to be suitably impressed by Google's recently released Chrome browser.

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Marc Andreessen, co-founder of Netscape and co-author of Mosaic, sits down with John Battelle, founder and chairman of Federated Media publishing at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco.

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A web browser that gave many people their first experience of the web is set to disappear. Netscape Navigator, now owned by AOL, will no longer be supported after 1 March 2008, the company has said.

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A web browser that gave many people their first experience of the web is set to disappear. Netscape Navigator, now owned by AOL, will no longer be supported after 1 March 2008, the company has said.

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There is Newsvine and "there are many social media addicts in this world. You see it every day on Digg, Reddit, StumbleUpon. Even Propeller, Mixx, and Newsvine have their share. What you may or may not know is whether or not you are one of them."

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Netscape has died, babl.nl has been born. Just a metaphor ? or could it be for real ?

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Requiem for Netscape

Today I took a moment to remember the reactions when AOL first acquired Netscape in 1998. Nine years later, it's ironic that a lot of Netscape employees had scrambled for the doors at the very first mention of the name "AOL."

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As we bid adieu to 2007 and prepare to enter the new year, AOL is also saying goodbye to memories: the company has finally killed off the Netscape Web browser - or what was left of it, anyway.

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As you can see on the Netscape blog, there is a huge post title called: End of Support for Netscape web browsers

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The age old web browser, NetScape, is set to close down due to Lack of users.

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Netscape Navigator, now owned by AOL, will no longer be supported after 1 February 2008, the company has said.

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In an email exchange yesterday with Tom Drapeau, Director of AOL/Netscape development, he said that only a handful of AOL engineers are still tasked with keeping the browser updated.

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Net Nostalgia - Three Floppies that changed your Life

It's just a week before Christmas 1994. It's cold, the rain not quite making it to snow. The wind cuts deep but you don't care, you are rushing home with the disks clutched tightly in your palm, safely wrapped in a small plastic bag.

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The November stats by NetApplications show Opera Mini is more popular than the Netscape browser (see graph below).

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Since 2000, according to published reports, the former veep has transformed himself from a public servant with around $1 million in the bank to a sparkling private consultant with a net worth estimated to be north of $100 million.

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From the article: You'll recall that in the mid-to-late-1990s Netscape was making noise about moving into Microsoft territory, and Microsoft had to get into the browser business to beat Netscape back and crush it.

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Netscape 9 is now available for download. I thought they had given up on Netscape! The most interesting new feature is that it supports Firefox extensions so you can use your web developer tools.

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According to an Associated Press story on Newsvine.com, the number of U.S. visitors to the Netscape home page in the past year dropped by about half to 2.4 million in July.

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Last week Netscape announced they were returning their news format to a more traditional one, while moving the social-networking type news to a different site.

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Few websites have gone through more reinvention this past decade then Netscape. Last week, the AOL run company announced it was changing again, scrapping their web 2.0 social news experiment and reverting to a portal format. The social news site will be reborn as a new property.

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AOL's social news site at Netscape.com will soon undergo a rebranding named 'Propeller' (No word yet on whether I have to wear a beanie hat or not)

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