Clark and Andreessen planned to further this popularization process and to capitalize on it by marketing a commercial-quality Web browser, Web-server software, development tools, and related services. In October 1994 the company made available on its Web site the first…

It was commercially launched as Netscape Navigator and, almost overnight, became the most popular browser used on the Web, taking over 75 percent of the market share by mid-1996.

The team behind Mosaic created Netscape Navigator, which was optimized for home users browsing at the slow speeds of dial-up modems. Netscape Navigator became the dominant Web browser soon after its release in 1994. BookLink Technologies’s InternetWorks, the first browser with tabs, in which a user could visit another Web…

…into early versions of the Netscape Navigator Web browser.

…cofounded Netscape Communications Corporation, whose Netscape Navigator became the dominant Web browser soon after its release in December 1994. BookLink Technologies’ InternetWorks, the first browser with tabs, in which a user could visit another Web site without opening an entirely new window, debuted that same year. By the mid-1990s the…

…Applications, Urbana, Illinois, developed a program called a browser that made it easier to use the World Wide Web, and a spin-off company named Netscape Communications Corp. was founded to commercialize that technology.