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Netscape Navigator wasn't the first internet browser. It wasn't the second either. It came along in 1994, four years after Tim Berners-Lee introduced the WorldW

• steego 4y ago
  That’s true, but Netscape wasn’t his first browser. He and Eric Bina also releasedd the first version of Mosaic in 1993, which was the first graphical browser to inline images with the text. Oh yeah, it ran on 5 operating systems (I used the OS/2 version myself) The breadth of features that were added between Netscape 1.0 and Netscape 3.0 in 2 year span was pretty astounding at that time. People forget how many critical features were added to Netscape 3.0 that would define so much of the web today and make it commercially viable.
• wpietri 4y ago
  And the company only lasted a few years! Good for him on being in the right place at the right time and jumping on the opportunity. But if we're going to use it as a yardstick of his genius, surely we have to also look at how it turned out.