What can you do with a 30-year-old version of Netscape Navigator on a modern computer? From a practical standpoint, not much.

An earlier Web browser for Windows, Mac and X Windows from Netscape Communications Corporation that provided secure transmission over the Internet. Soon after its introduction in 1994, Navigator ...

promptly entered a huge battle with Netscape’s Navigator browser. Web standards were in their infancy so the two browsers battled each other by manipulating the underlying technologies on which ...

The success of Mosaic laid the groundwork for the subsequent development of other web browsers. Andreessen soon departed NCSA to form Mosaic Communications (later Netscape) in April 1994 alongside ...

What this means is that one piece of code now looks the same on every modern browser, whether it be Netscape, Internet Explorer, Safari, Opera, or others. The only catch is, the majority of users ...

Netscape quickly became the browser of choice for most Internet users, which meant Mosaic was being downloaded and used less and less. As a result, in January 1997, the NCSA shut down the ...

Cusumano, M. A., and D. B. Yoffie. Competing on Internet Time: Lessons from Netscape and Its Battle with Microsoft. New York: Free Press, 1998.

And oh yes, before that he built the first modern web browser, and started a company, Netscape, which ignited the dotcom bubble and the still-ongoing antitrust proceedings against Microsoft.