Silently on the night of March 1st, 2008, AOL officially ended its support of the Netscape web browser. I somehow randomly ended up at the page posted to announce this. While bloated kludgy and buggy in its later days, Netscape still managed to eek out a final innovation - tabbed browsing. While not perfect, we’re still trying to create something that works better.
I have to admit, when I saw that logo of the N stepping over the horizon line it brought back many great memories and feelings of those early days of exploration and discovery. All of the sudden the world had opened up. There was this electricity, a sense of hope and wonder that you’d start your with as you sat behind your computer. Sipping your coffee, you’d type in that first url of the day and watch the shooting stars blaze past the N.