[I_Love_My_Husband]

Just one second here. You're all a little too gleeful. I asked my husband what is really going on.

AOL is Netscape. Microsoft/Gates hates Netscape and his msn sites won't work with Netscape.

Also Netscape has ties to Mozilla. Which I love.

I might not like aol, but Gates is really the bad guy here.

[EaglesUpForever]

They're all bad guys in this article: Jiang, AOL, and Gates... they deserve each other.

[marajade]

Netscape is inferior to internet explorer...

[Bush2000]

I asked my husband what is really going on. AOL is Netscape. Microsoft/Gates hates Netscape and his msn sites won't work with Netscape. Also Netscape has ties to Mozilla. Which I love. I might not like aol, but Gates is really the bad guy here.

Your husband is wrong. Netscape/Mozilla works fine with MSN (http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/911411). Nothing like an uninformed opinion, eh?

[aquawrench]

Netscape Sux. I used to be a big Netscape backer. It has taken four years of surfing both to give my nod to the evil empire. Netscape jumped the shark with #6.

[DaGman]

I cannot believe this is now "history".

Once upon a time there was this newfangled thing from the NCSA called Mosaic. It was the very first GUI browser. Old timers will remember the old text based Lynx browsers prior to Mosaic.

A bunch of guys that worked on Mosaic left NCSA and started Netscape with the Navigator browser which was basically a commercial version of Mosaic. They basicly took Mosaic to the next level. Navigator 1.0 was some finetuning of Mosaic. Navigator 2.0 involved a new innovation called Tables. I believe it was during the development of Navigator 2.0 that the Navigator project was given the name "Mozilla".

Somewhere along the way, Microsoft came out with an incredibly crappy browser called Explorer. It remained inferior until about the point of Navigator 4.0 and Explorer 4.0 when IMHO they were about equal.

I remember when AOL made the announcement that they had chosen Navigator as its browser of choice for its use. I was shocked when I learned a short few weeks later that AOL would use Explorer instead because Explorer was still a crappy browser. It wasn't until the MS trial that I found out how Gates turned the screws on AOL to not use Navigator.

While I was in graduate school in the early 90's and Navigator was the dominant browser, we explored different business uses for the Internet. We talked about how wonderful it would be to be able to display a Powerpoint presentation or an Excel spreadsheet in a browser. However, we concluded that hell would freeze over before Gates allowed this to happen with Navigator. Therefore, Netscape was going down a one-way dead end street. Ultimately, there would be no future for Netscape. As it turned out, that's exactly what happened.

Netscape went belly up and was bought by AOL so yes, AOL is now also Netscape.

What I don't know but would like to is what is up with the new Mozilla. It appears to be a "Navigator 7.0". Is this correct?

[TopQuark]

What's right and wrong is not determined by love.

[FreePaul]

I have been using Netscape as my principal browser since it came out. I am now seriously looking at other browsers because of the AOL influence. I just installed Netscape 7.0 on a new set up and haven't been able to get rid of all of the AOL trash yet. It is now on my computer almost as prevalent as those "Now ____Hours Free!" disks.