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I am confused by this comment too. I don't recall ever being asked to pay for Netscape. (not that I would have, at 12ish)
by redblacktree 2y ago
I am confused by this comment too. I don't recall ever being asked to pay for Netscape. (not that I would have, at 12ish)
- throwaway888889 2y agoI remember it was originally paid for (i vaguely remember seeing an ad in a pc mag) but by 1996 I got it for free
- gbeeson 2y agoI clearly remember it being boxed and on a shelf along side Internet Explorer for like $40 at CompUSA. Nearly an entire isle for browsers.
- scarface_74 2y agoYes, that was for people who didn’t know how to connect to Netscape’s official FTP server and download it directly
- scsh 2y agoIt was never required to pay for it. As was common with software back then, the free download was a fully featured "evaluation" version denoted by an "N" appended to the version number. That didn't last long though and it just stayed free. There was a "Gold" version they sold at retail for some time that had a WYSIWYG editor in it, until they made it standard as part of the Communicator suite.