As of Friday, AOL officially will end its support for Netscape, the fabled browser that helped transform the internet from a military and college science project into a community of consumers who could point and click their way through news and entertainment.

10 years ago, just before the AOL acquisition of Netscape James Barksdale, Eric Hahn, Mike Homer and Marc Andreessen decided to make the Netscape browser’s source code, the working core of the program, publicly available to be tweaked and improved.

And crazy part this born-again browser, is today called Firefox and has now captured about 16 percent of the U.S. browser market, stealing back its share from Microsoft’s once-impregnable Internet Explorer.

Source: Sfgate.com

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