Netscape Communications Corporation

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Netscape Communications Corporation was a pioneering web browser company of the 1990s whose Netscape Navigator played a central role in the early popularization of the World Wide Web.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf software company
technology company
web browser developer
acquiredBy AOL
acquisitionAmount approximately 4.2 billion US dollars
acquisitionDate 1999-03-17
competitor Microsoft
Microsoft Internet Explorer
country United States
developed JavaScript (with Brendan Eich)
Netscape Plugin Application Programming Interface (NPAPI)
Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol
dissolved early 2000s as an independent browser developer
foundedAs Mosaic Communications Corporation
foundedBy Jim Clark
Marc Andreessen
Silicon Graphics cofounder Jim Clark
foundedDate 1994-04-04
headquartersLocation Mountain View, California
Silicon Valley
industry internet industry
software industry
influenced Firefox web browser
Mozilla project
introduced SSL encryption for web traffic
early support for cookies in web browsers
the <blink> HTML tag
ipoDate 1995-08-09
ipoEvent high-profile initial public offering that fueled the dot-com boom
keyPerson Brendan Eich
Jim Barksdale
Marc Andreessen
Mike Homer
legacy helped popularize the World Wide Web in the 1990s
its browser wars with Microsoft shaped antitrust scrutiny of tech companies
pioneered commercial web browsing
notableWork Netscape Navigator web browser
parentCompanyAfterAcquisition AOL
product Netscape Communicator
Netscape Directory Server
Netscape Enterprise Server
Netscape Mail
Netscape Navigator
significantEvent played central role in early popularization of the World Wide Web
triggered the first browser war with Microsoft
status defunct
stockExchange NASDAQ
tickerSymbol NSCP


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