essen made himself available for 24-hour technical support, learning how to improve the product and ensuring user loyalty. Finally, he marketed the Mosaic name heavily, training users to associate it with the Web. His efforts paid off: a million copies of Mosaic were downloaded in its first year, and another million in the next six months.In early 1994, Andreessen joined up with Jim Clark, the founder of Silicon Graphics, to form the company that would become Netscape Communications. Andreessen brought most of his NCSA colleagues with him, and within months they released Mosaic NetScape (later renamed Netscape Navigator), a faster, slicker, more secure browser than the original Mosaic. Navigator was a runaway success, quickly snapping up more than 70 percent of the browser market share. Time magazine even named it one of the ten best products of 1994, right up there with the Chrysler Neon, the Wonderbra, and Fruitopia. Kay, so maybe that wasn't such an honor. Hehe :)But the myths surrounding the company was almost more important to the evolution of the Web than the browser itself. Along with Yahoo and other Web startups, Netscape embodied Web culture--young, hip, smart, irreverent--and the baby-faced, often barefooted Andreessen served as its poster child. The company generated so much buzz that its summer 1995 initial public offering stock, which had been valued at $28 a share, instead opened at $71--unbelievable for a company that had never turned a profit and gave most of its software away. Once again, Netscape was a leader. An OutlineOf Computer Historyp. 1-6O1842 Babbages Difference Engine and the Analytical EngineO1959 The Honeywell 400 and 2nd generation of computersO1964 IBM 360 and third generation of computersO1964 The BASIC languageO1971 Integrated Circuits and fourth generation of Computers.O1975 Microsoft and Bill GatesO1977 The Apple IIO1981 The IBM PCO1982 Mitchell Kapor Designs Lotus 123 O1985 to present: Microsoft Wind...
