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.
Where did you see it, and when? A date and a source that still resolves.
