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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

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown 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

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown 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

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown 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

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown 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

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown 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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