“The dead being the majority, it is natural that we should have more friends among them than among the living.”
As of next month we bury an old friend. When I got my own personal computer there were only a couple of browsers on the market after Mosaic became insufficient. Netscape Navigator was one of the coolest and best browsers at that point and continued to be a success for many years. I stopped using it at the 4.7 version. It was fast and with the introduction of Netscape Communicator easy to get things done like email and an address book. This was a big deal then! Unfortunately they decided to keep adding to it and it became bulky and unusable. Many people turned to other faster slimmer browsers that offered a lot more. America Online bought it several years back and as of February will no longer be supporting it. In the computer world no support is a death sentence. So today we sing your praises for your historical value and wish you well in software heaven. To read a well written history of an old friend check out this BBC article.
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