The browser that was the web in 1995 — 80 per cent of users, a $2 billion IPO that started the dot-com bubble, and a throbbing 'N' in the corner while the page loaded — and that lost everything to a free Internet Explorer by 1998, gave its code to Mozilla, and had its last version supported until 1 March 2008. The record notes that Firefox is its grandchild and that 'Netscape' is the word people use to date a memory to before Google.
The record notes that 'best viewed in Netscape' on a 1996 homepage was a political statement, that the meteor-shower logo was better than any browser logo since, and that the IPO made Marc Andreessen famous and the internet a market.
Cause on file is "Lost the browser war; support ended". The fuller version: it was used by exactly the wrong person at exactly the wrong moment, and everyone saw it happen at once.
What does it mean? Write it the way you would say it out loud.
