Why Netscape Died Out: What Happened to the World’s First Browser?

In 1995, if you wanted to go online, you used Netscape Navigator. It was the window to the world for the first generation of internet users. It was fast, it was innovative, and for a brief moment, it looked like it would be more important than Windows itself.

But within five years, Netscape’s 90% market share had collapsed.

In this video, we look back at the original browser war. We examine how a company that built the foundation of the modern web—introducing things like cookies and JavaScript—ended up being completely erased by its biggest competitor.

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### What you will learn in this video

* The Birth of the Navigator: How the team behind Mosaic created a commercial juggernaut.
* The Microsoft Challenge: How the bundling of Internet Explorer changed the rules of the game.
* The Innovation Trap: Why Netscape’s technical leads couldn't keep up with a rival that had unlimited resources.
* The Open Source Legacy: How Netscape’s final act changed the internet forever through the creation of the Mozilla project.

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This is the story of the first real casualty of the tech industry’s most famous rivalry. It is a look at a time when the internet was still new, and a single piece of software could change the world overnight.

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