👉 Netscape was a pioneering internet company that developed one of the first widely used web browsers, Netscape Navigator, in the mid-1990s. Founded in 1994 by Marc Andreessen and Eric Singhal, the company quickly became a dominant force in the browser market, capturing nearly 90% of the desktop browser market share by the early 1990s. Netscape Navigator was known for its user-friendly interface and advanced features, including support for HTML 3.0, which helped standardize web content presentation. The company's success was partly due to its strategic acquisition of Mosaic, the original web browser software, and its development of the Netscape Communications Corporation, which later expanded into other internet-related ventures. However, its rise was short-lived as the emergence of Microsoft's Internet Explorer and subsequent advancements in web technologies led to its decline, culminating in the company's acquisition by AOL in 1999.
