Those of us who’ve been around long enough to remember Netscape’s birth will feel a little sad to hear that it’s finally reached the end of the line:
AOL’s focus on transitioning to an ad-supported web business leaves little room for the size of investment needed to get the Netscape browser to a point many of its fans expect it to be. Given AOL’s current business focus and the success the Mozilla Foundation has had in developing critically-acclaimed products, we feel it’s the right time to end development of Netscape branded browsers, hand the reigns fully to Mozilla and encourage Netscape users to adopt Firefox.
I first downloaded a copy of Netscape some time in 1995. What a long, strange trip it’s been since then.
At least we still have Firefox.