COMPANY

The first (and for several years the best) internet browser for general use. Founded in 1994 by Marc Andreessen and other veterans of the Mosaic project at the University of Illinois' National Center for Supercomputing Applications. Netscape's fortunes faltered after Microsoft began giving away its inferior browser, Internet Explorer, for free. Purchased by AOL for $4.2B in 1999, and scuttled in 2008. A related organization, the Mozilla Foundation, was created in 2003 to continue development of a web browser, Firefox.

Official Website:
http://www.netscape.com/

Industry:
Software

Ticker:
NASDAQ:NSCP (defunct)

Corporate headquarters:
Mountain View, CA

EXECUTIVES

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Marc Andreessen	Computer Programmer	26-Apr-1971		Co-Founder of Netscape
Mitchell Baker	Activist	c. 1957		Mozilla Foundation
Jim Barksdale	Business	24-Jan-1943		CEO of Netscape, 1995-99
Jason Calacanis	Business	28-Nov-1970		Weblogs Inc., Mahalo.com
Jim Clark	Business	1944		Co-Founder of SGI and Netscape
Peter L. S. Currie	Business	c. 1956		CFO of Netscape, 1995-99
Taher Elgamal	Computer Programmer	18-Aug-1955		Inventor of the Elgamal crypto algorithm
Susan Mernit	Business	c. 1952		Former VP of Netscape, AOL

PAST BOARD MEMBERS OR DIRECTORS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Marc Andreessen	Computer Programmer	26-Apr-1971		Co-Founder of Netscape
Eric A. Benhamou	Business	c. 1956		CEO of 3Com, 1990-2000
Jim Clark	Business	1944		Co-Founder of SGI and Netscape
John Doerr	Business	29-Jun-1951		Silicon Valley venture capitalist
John Warnock	Computer Programmer	6-Oct-1940		Co-Founder of Adobe

NOTABLE EMPLOYEES

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Brendan Eich	Computer Programmer	1961		Invented JavaScript for Netscape
John Giannandrea	Computer Programmer	?		Chief Technology Officer at Tellme
Phil Karlton	Computer Programmer	28-Feb-1947	20-Jun-1997	Netscape Principal Curmudgeon
Lou Montulli	Computer Programmer	c. 1971		Invented BLINK tag, wrote Lynx browser
Tom Paquin	Computer Programmer	?		Netscape Fellow
Jamie Zawinski	Computer Programmer	3-Nov-1968		Netscape geek and SF club owner

EMPLOYMENT

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Tristan A. Farnon	Cartoonist	20-Apr-1970		Leisure Town
Larry Kaplan	Computer Programmer	c. 1952		Kaboom!
Rands	Blogger	1970		Managing Humans
Rich Skrenta	Computer Programmer	1967		First PC virus, Elk Cloner

EXTRANEOUS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Robert Bork	Government	1-Mar-1927		Fired Archibald Cox, later got himself borked
Tim Bray	Computer Programmer	21-Jun-1955		Co-Inventor of XML

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