Instead of an arcane subculture used by scientists and students, the Web became a tool for everyday people. NIILER: Investors were swept away by the novelty of the Netscape browser. KEVIN KELLY (Wired Magazine): Here was a company that basically had not only no profits, but it didn't even have a suggestion of how it was going to make money. The San Francisco publication covered the Silicon Valley gold rush. Kevin Kelly was editor of Wired magazine. Pretty good for a startup founded by a 23-year-old computer programmer and some college buddies from Illinois. By December of 1995, Netscape was trading at $171 a share. NIILER: That's how NBC's George Lewis recounted Netscape's first day of public trading. GEORGE LEWIS (NBC News): At 11 AM this morning, the company's stock went public and Wall Street went bonkers. But on Wall Street, Netscape's initial public offering was blood in the water to frenzied traders. Here's NPR's Eric Niiler.įor many folks, the big news on August 9th, 1995, was the death of Grateful Dead leader Jerry Garcia. The Netscape offering marked the beginning of the dot-com boom.
By the end of the trading day, they were going for 75. Ten years ago, Netscape made its first public stock offering. Download it only out of curiosity.And there's a reason for that Short List on this particular day. The browser even includes a link to both Firefox and Flock. However I felt it all looked a little cluttered, especially when you can open pages in multiple tabs instead.Įnding support for Netscape essentially means this version will slowly turn into a museum piece. It essentially shows websites in simple text, in case there's some pages you just want to browse through quickly. The mini browser, on the other hand, seems a bit out of place. I found this quite useful for things I didn't really wanted to bookmark but still wanted to store somewhere.
I quite like the link pad, which lets you drag and drop any link in the sidebar. Two features that Netscape offers that you won't find in Firefox though are the link pad and mini browser. Netscape also has a number of similar security features like master password and SSL and TLS encryption. In terms of performance, you can also expect identical speed and memory usage as Firefox.
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