netscape navigator

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.