“Bill Gates was bitching about us changing JS all the time,” Eich later recalled of the fall of 1996. Microsoft created its ...
The World Wide Web of the 90s was a magical place, where you couldn’t click two links without getting bombarded with phrases such as the Information Super Highway and Multimedia Experience. Of course, ...
In late 1994, controversy was brewing over royalties being imposed on GIFs due to the Lempel–Ziv–Welch (LZW) data compression technique used to underpin this image format. Unisys, which had patented ...
Aug. 9 marks the 30th anniversary of the internet’s Big Bang moment, an inflection point in the emergent digital world. This Big Bang was the stunning stock market debut of Netscape Communications, ...
The initial public offering was filed at $14. Everyone wanted shares, so Morgan Stanley set the deal price at $28. As trading started, the stock popped to $74, ending the day at $58. Tech star Figma?
Author of the new book, "How the Web Won", cautions that AI is showing clear signs it's upsetting the fundamentals of the $790 billion digital advertising industry. Businesses that depend on the "blue ...
NEW YORK, July 24 (Reuters Breakingviews) - With a $300 billion valuation, ChatGPT developer OpenAI towers over peak Netscape. The trailblazing web browser, however, looms large from Silicon Valley to ...
Elon Musk, the richest man in the world, had not so easy start in the corporate America. The Tesla boss has never shied away from his early struggles and how he chose the path of entrepreneurship.
For nearly three decades, Netscape Communications was the tech startup fairytale of Silicon Valley. Computer geeks, fresh from college and sugared up on Mountain Dew and Skittles, flocked to the ...
Back in the early days, the internet was a very different creature from what it is today. To most, it would be unrecognizable, consisting primarily of bulletin board systems with no multimedia, aside ...
Today marks the 30th anniversary of the launch of Netscape Navigator, the first commercial attempt to make a web browser. Its release ushered in the first era of browser wars. Netscape was initially ...
Nowadays, there are many different web browsers, and users can freely choose the browser they prefer. However, in the early 1990s, there were only a few options such as ' NCSA Mosaic ' and ' Netscape ...