In March 1998, the company created a free software license by publishing most of the Communicator code to attract the attention of the free software community, and the Internet browser market is running out. The result of this competition resulted in the victory of Internet Explorer, which achieved a 98% share. Companies introduced their own extensions, but HTML and JavaScript were incompatible. This led to browser competition between the two companies, with the integration of Internet Explorer into Microsoft Windows. This version was incorrect and the dynamic HTML implementation was lower than Internet Explorer 4. With version 4, it introduced CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) and Dynamic HTML through a special HTML extension called JavaScript and layers. It was widely criticized for adding a large number of custom extensions to HTML, created without following the recommendations of the WWW Consortium, which are supporters of Internet standards. The Communicator version was created by adding new features to read and send both email and news and messages.Ī new feature, the page editor (Netscape Composer), was introduced in version 3 of the browser. It was the first browser to add a scripting language to web pages and introduce the JavaScript language in version 2. Having a very intimate interface, Mozaik was bought by more than 2 million people a year thanks to its interface and free distribution. Marc Andreessen founded Netscape with Jim Clark in April 1994 and served as president since September 1994.Īndreessen, who did not graduate from the University of Illinois, created the Mosaic browser and the Mosaic browser together with other students in the National Supercomputer Applications Center group. He also did a Bachelor of Physics in 1970 and a Master of Physics Science from Louisiana State University in New Orleans. He graduated from Utah University in 1974 with a Ph.D. Years before he founded Silicon Graphics, Clark was a successful professor at the prestigious Stanford University. This group of programmers created Mosaic, the first web page viewer whose discovery was the start of Netscape Communications. In March 1994, he left Silicon Graphics to work with a group of young programmers from the University of Illinois on Internet-Based Business Applications and Consumer Software. Jim Clark founded and headed Silicon Graphics in 1994, before setting up Netscape with Marc Andreessen. Under his leadership, FedEx became the company that won the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. He became vice president and CEO in 1983, causing the company to grow from 1 billion to 7.7 billion and open branches in more than 135 countries. He spent 12 years as a CIO from McCaw with Federal Express Corporation from 1979 to 1983 and oversaw the development and implementation of the company’s worldwide systems. Jim Barksdale was president and CEO of McCaw, a company worth $2 billion in 1993, from January 1992 to September 1994. Jim Barksdale joined Netscape in January 1995.īefore joining Netscape, Jim Barksdale was the CEO of AT&T Wireless Services, resulting from the merger between AT&T and McCaw Cellular Communications. Netscape’s revenue was sold to AOL because it declined for years, but the company has maintained its leadership in Internet technologies. This was because Bill Gates was a personal mistake of not noticing the growth of the Internet.
When Navigator’s share in the internet market is 80%, Microsoft offered Explorer for free. On August 8, 1995, Netscape had to set a price for 5 million shares to be offered to the public. Venture capital company Kleiner Perkins invested $5 million for 20 percent of the company. The company launched its first browser, Navigator, in October 1994.
Later, it reached around 2,500 employees in 3 years. The company had only 3 employees in April 1994 but increased the number of its employees to 100 in the same year. The purpose of the program was to make it easy to use the Internet on personal computers. This new online program was called Mosaic. The investor named Jim Clark made a deal with Marc Andreessen, a good student who is willing to work in Silicon Valley to develop Netscape and create a new program and is successful with an Internet browser.