The original green and purple Mozilla mascot, a Godzilla-like lizard which represented the company's goal of producing the browser that would be the "Mosaic killer" However, the need to project a more "professional" image (especially towards corporate clients) led to this being removed. The Mozilla mascot featured prominently on Netscape's website in the company's early years. A cartoon Godzilla-like lizard mascot was drawn by artist-employee Dave Titus, which went well with the theme of crushing the competition. The internal codename for the company's browser was Mozilla, which stood for "Mosaic killer", as the company's goal was to displace NCSA Mosaic as the world's number one web browser. The Mosaic Netscape web browser did not use any NCSA Mosaic code. This browser was subsequently renamed Netscape Navigator, and the company took the "Netscape" name (coined by employee Greg Sands, although it was also a trademark of Cisco Systems ) on November 14, 1994, to avoid trademark ownership problems with NCSA, where the initial Netscape employees had previously created the NCSA Mosaic web browser.
It became the main browser for Internet users in such a short time due to its superiority over other competition, like Mosaic. Within four months of its release, it had already taken three-quarters of the browser market. The company's first product was the web browser, called Mosaic Netscape 0.9, released on October 13, 1994. Marc Andreessen explains, "If they had shipped a year earlier, we probably would have done that instead of Netscape." Jim Clark and Marc Andreessen originally created a 20-page concept pitch for an online gaming network to Nintendo for the Nintendo 64 console, but a deal was never reached. Jim Barksdale came on board as CEO in January 1995. Clark recruited other early team members from SGI and NCSA Mosaic.
The first meeting between Clark and Andreessen was never truly about a software or service like Netscape, but more about a product that was similar to Nintendo. It was founded under the name Mosaic Communications Corporation on April 4, 1994, the brainchild of Jim Clark who had recruited Marc Andreessen as co-founder and Kleiner Perkins as investors. Netscape was the first company to attempt to capitalize on the emerging World Wide Web. Netscape Navigator, Macworld (May 1995) Instead, think about an encyclopedia-one with unlimited, graphically rich pages, connections to E-mail and files, and access to Internet newsgroups and online shopping. History Early years Netscape Communications wants you to forget all the highway metaphors you've ever heard about the internet.
The Mozilla Organization rewrote the entire browser's source code based on the Gecko rendering engine, and all future Netscape releases were based on this rewritten code. In February 1998, approximately one year prior to its acquisition by AOL, Netscape released the source code for its browser and created the Mozilla Organization to coordinate future development of its product. Netscape stock traded from 1995 until 1999 when the company was acquired by AOL in a pooling-of-interests transaction ultimately worth US$10 billion. The company also developed SSL which was used for securing online communications before its successor TLS took over. An early Netscape employee Brendan Eich created the JavaScript programming language, the most widely used language for client-side scripting of web pages and a founding engineer of Netscape Lou Montulli created HTTP cookies. Its Netscape web browser was once dominant but lost to Internet Explorer and other competitors in the so-called first browser war, with its market share falling from more than 90 percent in the mid-1990s to less than 1 percent in 2006. Netscape Communications Corporation (originally Mosaic Communications Corporation) was an American independent computer services company with headquarters in Mountain View, California and then Dulles, Virginia.