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Netscape
COMPANY
The first (and for several years the best) internet browser for general use. Founded in 1994 by Marc Andreessen and other veterans of the Mosaic project at the University of Illinois' National Center for Supercomputing Applications. Netscape's fortunes faltered after Microsoft began giving away its inferior browser, Internet Explorer, for free. Purchased by AOL for $4.2B in 1999, and scuttled in 2008. A related organization, the Mozilla Foundation, was created in 2003 to continue development of a web browser, Firefox.
Official Website:
http://www.netscape.com/
Industry:
Software
Ticker:
NASDAQ:NSCP (defunct)
Corporate headquarters:
Mountain View, CA
EXECUTIVES
PAST BOARD MEMBERS OR DIRECTORS
| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
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| Marc Andreessen |
Computer Programmer |
26-Apr-1971 |
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Co-Founder of Netscape |
| Eric A. Benhamou |
Business |
c. 1956 |
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CEO of 3Com, 1990-2000 |
| Jim Clark |
Business |
1944 |
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Co-Founder of SGI and Netscape |
| John Doerr |
Business |
29-Jun-1951 |
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Silicon Valley venture capitalist |
| John Warnock |
Computer Programmer |
6-Oct-1940 |
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Co-Founder of Adobe |
NOTABLE EMPLOYEES
| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
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| Brendan Eich |
Computer Programmer |
1961 |
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Invented JavaScript for Netscape |
| John Giannandrea |
Computer Programmer |
? |
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Chief Technology Officer at Tellme |
| Phil Karlton |
Computer Programmer |
28-Feb-1947 |
20-Jun-1997 |
Netscape Principal Curmudgeon |
| Lou Montulli |
Computer Programmer |
c. 1971 |
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Invented BLINK tag, wrote Lynx browser |
| Tom Paquin |
Computer Programmer |
? |
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Netscape Fellow |
| Jamie Zawinski |
Computer Programmer |
3-Nov-1968 |
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Netscape geek and SF club owner |
EMPLOYMENT
| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
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| Tristan A. Farnon |
Cartoonist |
20-Apr-1970 |
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Leisure Town |
| Larry Kaplan |
Computer Programmer |
c. 1952 |
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Kaboom! |
| Rands |
Blogger |
1970 |
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Managing Humans |
| Rich Skrenta |
Computer Programmer |
1967 |
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First PC virus, Elk Cloner |
EXTRANEOUS
| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
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| Robert Bork |
Government |
1-Mar-1927 |
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Fired Archibald Cox, later got himself borked |
| Tim Bray |
Computer Programmer |
21-Jun-1955 |
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Co-Inventor of XML |
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