Netscape Navigator: fast lane to success

The World Wide Web was initially slow and clunky, but Netscape sped forward with a ground-breaking browser which, as David Crookes explains, blindsided most of Silicon Valley

If you ever used Netscape Navigator in the early days of the World Wide Web, then your memory likely comprises two things: the sight of comets falling to earth around the “N” of the Netscape logo as web pages loaded, and the fact that you’d be staring at them for ages, watching your life slowly ebb by, given the slow nature of internet connections in the mid-1990s. I was reminded of this when noting that the first version of this iconic browser is almost 30 years old, prompting me to seek out the animation once more. Turns out there’s an add-on for Firefox that replicates it called Firescape Navigator (tinyurl.com/360firescape), and there are videos on YouTube providing minutes of nostalgic “fun”. It also became apparent that the animation didn’t actually appear with…

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