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Netscape’s significance to the computer industry is that it developed the Netscape Navigator web browser which dominated the web browser market in the mid-1990s. The decline in the usage of Netscape from over a 90 % market share in the mid-1990s to less than 1 % of the market share in 2006 was due to the browser wars with Microsoft’s Internet Explorer.
Netscape also developed important Internet technologies such as secure sockets layer technology (SSL) used for secure payments and the JavaScript scripting language for web pages.
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O’Regan, G. (2015). Netscape Communications. In: Pillars of Computing. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21464-1_24
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