Netscape Communications Corporation was an American independent computer services company with headquarters in Mountain View, California and then Dulles, Virginia.
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19 Facts About Netscape
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Netscape developed SSL which was used for securing online communications before its successor TLS took over.
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Netscape stock traded from 1995 until 1999 when the company was acquired by AOL in a pooling-of-interests transaction ultimately worth US$10 billion.
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Netscape was the first company to attempt to capitalize on the emerging World Wide Web.
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Meanwhile, Netscape faced increasing criticism for "featuritis" – putting a higher priority on adding new features than on making their products work properly.
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Netscape experienced its first bad quarter at the end of 1997 and underwent a large round of layoffs in January 1998.
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Netscape publicly released the source code of Netscape Communicator 5.
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Netscape was not a plaintiff in the case, though its executives were subpoenaed and it contributed much material to the case, including the entire contents of the 'Bad Attitude' internal discussion forum.
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Netscape had its own programming staff devoted to the development and support for the series of web browsers.
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Additionally, Netscape maintained the Propeller web portal, which was a popular social-news site, similar to Digg, which was given a new look in June 2006.
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In 1998, an informal group called the Mozilla Organization was formed and largely funded by Netscape to coordinate the development of Netscape 5, which would be based on the Communicator source code.
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Netscape introduced a new AOL-free-version of the browser suite.
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On June 11,2007, Netscape announced Netscape Mercury, a standalone email and news client that was to accompany Navigator 9.
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Netscape operated a search engine, Netscape Search, which now redirects to AOL Search.
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Netscape NewsQuake is Netscape's news and opinion blog, including video clips and discussions.
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Netscape drove much traffic from various links included in the browser menus to its web properties.
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The new AOL Netscape site was originally previewed in August 2007 before moving the existing site in September 2007.
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