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How Netscape commercialized the browser, lost distribution to Microsoft, opened its code, joined AOL, and left Mozilla behind.
How a strategy meeting, Netscape's source release, and the Debian Free Software Guidelines produced a new advocacy label.
Run Navigator or Mosaic via oldweb.today, a period VM, or archive.org emulation — and pair them with Wayback captures for the real 1990s experience.
How AOL's 1998 all-stock Netscape agreement combined a portal, enterprise software, talent, and browser leverage—not one simple Microsoft counterattack.
Netscape's spectacular August 1995 debut became a symbol of internet investing, but one trading day did not create the dot-com bubble by itself.
Netscape's January 1998 pledge led to Mozilla's first source release in March, but converting old browser code into Firefox took years.
Reconstruct Netscape's rise and Internet Explorer's distribution campaign using the Microsoft antitrust record, product history and Mozilla evidence.