Julie Veazie's Technology Timeline

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1994

Netscape Founded

In October of 1994, Netscape offers a beta version of its Navigator Browser on the Internet, six months after forming the company. Navigator can be downloaded free from the Internet. According to Jim Clark, co-founder of Netscape, the idea is to distribute the product quickly and easily over the Internet. This browser uses HTML and is the first with a point and click interface which can be used to navigate the web easily. No other companies seem interested in developing this type of product for the general public's use of the Internet.

Netscape is a technology company formed by Jim Clark and Marc Andreeson. Marc Andreeson and other NCSA (National Center for Supercomputing Applications)development team members from the University of Illinois developed the MOSAIC web browser while students at the University of Illinois. The University of Illinois and these developers come to an agreement which allows them to use the technology and start a company with a different name (i.e. not Mosaic) and enter the market place.

Sources:
1. Netscape Time: The Making of the Billion-Dollar Start-Up That Took on Microsoft by Jim Clark, 1999
Book written by co-founder of Netscape about the process of starting and developing the Netscape company.
2. http://www.usatoday.com/2000/money/money003.htm
USA Today's list of technical milestones.
3. http://www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/02/03/linux.success.idg/
Article about Netscape being coded an "open source". Reference to Mosaic and history of Netscape's beginnings.