Founder Marc Andreessen, who led development of the original Mosaic browser, is founder and chairman of Opsware, a data center software company.
Jim Clark, who brought Andreessen and his colleagues to Silicon Valley to found Mosaic Communications later Netscape , launched a series of companies, some of which have fared better than others. More recently, Clark has been involved in commercial real estate in south Florida.
But if you want to find a whole lot of former Netscape employees in one place, look no further than LiveOps in Palo Alto, Calif. Chris Houck, one of Netscape's founding engineers, is LiveOps' senior engineer for applications. Michael Toy, founding team manager for the Netscape browser, is director of agent management for LiveOps. Rick Potts, a senior engineer at Netscape and the architect of the first bit Java virtual machine, is now a LiveOps senior engineer.
Matt Fisher, who did the original quality assurance work for Netscape, now does product management for LiveOps. And the list goes on, through more than a dozen names, all the way up to LiveOps' chief technology officer, Lloyd Tabb, who built Netscape's first HTML Composer and first scripting engine, and LiveOps' co-founder and vice president of engineering, Jim Everingham, an engineer on the original Netscape 1.
They all want to do something that they feel good about. It's a pretty big rush for everyone here right now. Originally ordered to break up the multi-billion dollar company, a much lesser sentence was imposed that made it easier for browser competitors to integrate into Windows. By the fall of , the deal was in place for AOL to acquire Netscape in their own effort to take on Microsoft.
It would take two more decades, but they would lose , too. This effort would lead to the creation of Mozilla and its Firefox browser, one of the best alternatives to Google Chrome, the browser that would dethrone Internet Explorer in Marc Andreessen is now a billionaire venture capitalist who was an early investor in Facebook and believes VR is the wave of the future.
Eric Bina decided to leave tech altogether. I can do that because of Netscape. Type keyword s to search. By Matt Blitz. By , they had done exactly that. The Browser Is Born. Marc Andreessen in Robert Burroughs Getty Images.
Netscape founder Jim Clark in Steve Kagan Getty Images. Netscape Navigator 1. Bill Gates, left, argues in front of the U. A clip of The Kids Guide to the Internet already shows the browser wars in action.
Jeff Greenberg Getty Images. Another Web 1. Matt Blitz Matt is a history, science, and travel writer who is always searching for the mysterious and hidden. This content is created and maintained by a third party, and imported onto this page to help users provide their email addresses. You may be able to find more information about this and similar content at piano. More From Web. Advertisement - Continue Reading Below. Andreessen and his development staff, which was composed of several of the original NCSA team members, were tinkering with Netscape to make it better and faster.
The new improved version, called Netscape Navigator 1. British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee is considered to be the inventor of the Internet. He developed the computer codes that created the World Wide Web in Unlike others, such as Marc Andreessen, who went on to make millions from the Web, Berners-Lee has not profited from his invention.
Instead, he formed a nonprofit organization called the World Wide Web Consortium to maintain the integrity of the Internet. In an October conference at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT , Berners-Lee said: "I have and still have a dream that the web could be less of a television channel and more of an interactive sea of shared knowledge. In March , the company opened its first international office, in Tokyo, and formed a subsidiary, Netscape Communications Japan Ltd.
In the United States, it partnered with Adobe Systems Technology to develop on-line publishing software. This partnership brought interest from some of the country's leading publishers, who bought stakes in Netscape. Next came an official alliance with Sun Microsystems, Inc. In August , Andreessen and Clark took Netscape public, meaning they sold shares of the company on the stock exchange in order to earn money for expansion. Because the company had such a big impact on computer and Internet industries, Netscape stock was hot and everyone wanted to buy a share.
The success of Netscape had turned Clark into a billionaire and Andreessen into a megamillionaire. But with Netscape's prosperity came stiff competition, mainly from the Microsoft Corporation and its own whiz kid founder, Bill Gates see Microsoft Corporation entry. Microsoft had developed Windows, the most used operating system in the world.
An operating system is the program that controls a computer's different functions. The company now had its eye on the browser market. Netscape developed Navigator 1. While Navigator 1. Internet Explorer 1.
This meant that people who purchased a computer with Windows on it would probably just use Internet Explorer and not bother with Netscape Navigator. It was not Explorer, however, that posed the greatest risk to Netscape; it was the slew of other search engines that had burst on the scene.
As the competition heated up, Netscape began losing some of its users to the newcomers. In the fall of , Netscape passed two important milestones: it made its first acquisition, Collabra Software Inc. In support of its new offices, versions of Netscape's many programs were available in French and German, along with Japanese.
By the end of the year the company had signed a profitable deal with International Business Machines IBM to combine Netscape programs with IBM's extensive voice, data, and video networks. In , Netscape continued to enter partnerships, branching out in Latin America with several new distributors in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, and Peru.
Its increasingly sophisticated on-line programs also appealed to a who's who of famous companies and organizations, including Apple Computer, Inc.
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