Netscape Navigator, every mention
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every year anyone Ben Gilbert 7David Rosenthal 4Brendan Eich 4Brad Gerstner 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Netscape Navigator comes up
Microsoft Volume II: The Complete History and Strategy of the Ballmer Years (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 24:20 David Rosenthal And by October, the newly christened Mosaic Communications Corporation posts the first version of its browser, Mosaic Navigator, for free to download on the web.
- ▶ 24:58 Ben Gilbert He said it's the Mosaic Corporation, and then you said it's Mosaic Navigator.
- ▶ 25:04 Ben Gilbert Even though it's called Mosaic, because Marc Andreessen wanted to draft off the success of the previous project he had done called Mosaic, this is completely new code.
- ▶ 25:23 Ben Gilbert This is a new thing called Mosaic that does the same thing, architected for commercial use.
- ▶ 26:03 Ben Gilbert You have a new thing that will become Netscape called Mosaic that is totally separate code, and Mosaic, Marc Andreessen's new Mosaic, keeps trying to go do deals, like sell their server software,
- ▶ 27:58 David Rosenthal So Netscape isn't interested in licensing because they have their own business model selling web server software, and they want to allow free downloads of the Navigator client.
- ▶ 29:04 Ben Gilbert There's Netscape Navigator.
- ▶ 29:07 David Rosenthal Netscape Navigator.
- ▶ 40:24 David Rosenthal You can buy it for 50 dollars as part of the plus pack that I was referencing before, and install that and add it into Windows, and Microsoft will make money on the sale of that software, but that of course does nothing to make a dent in…
Nvidia Part III: The Dawn of the AI Era (2022-2023) (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:33:54 Ben Gilbert Again, that's the Netscape navigator here, of this whole boom.
Altimeter (with Brad Gerstner) · Acquired
- ▶ 19:31 Brad Gerstner So, 1996, when I'm graduating from law school, I also have this ah-ha moment, like so many people did with the Netscape browser.
The Browser (with Brendan Eich, Chief Architect of Netscape + Mozilla and CEO of Brave) · Acquired
- ▶ 5:31 Ben Gilbert Grew up using Firefox and the Mozilla browser before that, and Netscape before that, and God knows I use plenty of JavaScript every day in all facets of my life, so my life would not be what it is without your work over the years.
- ▶ 19:31 Brendan Eich Compact Shift Netscape as the default browser was illegal, and they got convicted for it.
- ▶ 20:43 Brendan Eich They'd been sort of messing up Netscape for Mail News, and they, they didn't like open source.
- ▶ 21:05 Brendan Eich Yes, and the Mozilla Suite was pretty much the un-Netscape, to use un-Googled as an analogy, the un-Netscape version of the code, and this actually started winning users because AOL bought Netscape and started festooning Netscape with
- ▶ 22:42 Brendan Eich And they took the Netscape two and three, a mail reader and newsreader, which Jamie and Terry Weissman, who I've mentioned, worked on and did a pretty good job on in very short time.