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http://apnews.excite.com/article/200...D8TQN9U81.html
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.
Its current caretakers, Time Warner Inc. (TWX)'s AOL, decided to kill further development and technical support to focus on growing the company as an advertising business. Netscape's usage dwindled with Microsoft Corp. (MSFT)'s entry into the browser business, and Netscape all but faded away following the birth of its open-source cousin, Firefox.

"While internal groups within AOL have invested a great deal of time and energy in attempting to revive Netscape Navigator, these efforts have not been successful in gaining market share from Microsoft's Internet Explorer," Netscape Director Tom Drapeau wrote in a blog entry Friday.

In recent years, Netscape has been little more than a repackaged version of the more popular Firefox, which commands about 10 percent of the Web browser market, with almost all of the rest going to Internet Explorer.

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Devhux

Wow -- I can't believe I've been on the Internet since Netscape came out. August 1994 was when I first signed up with my 14.4kbps modem, and surfed using the browser with the Big Blue N (Netscape 1.2 I believe). I also remember when we had to use a program called Trumpet Winsock to connect (what a nightmare!)

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bachviet

I love Netscape during my college days (3.xx and 4.xx) but I rarely touched it since IE5 and IE6. Now I just use FireFox and/or Opera anyway.

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