Robert A. Uhl

Today AOL has killed Netscape Navigator. I remember using Mosaic on Solaris and Macs, and when Navigator came out I thought it was just a ripoff of Mosaic (which is was — in fact, IIRC the first version was called Mosaic …). But then it became extremely popular, setting several records (including buggiest software ever).

The best thing Netscape ever did was free its code, giving us Firefox. The rest is … well, it happened: that’s the best which can be said for it.

04 February 2018: updated URL