Netscape Communications Corporation was the publisher of the
Netscape Navigator browser. It was renamed from
the Mosaic Communications Corporation, founded by
Marc Andreessen[?] and
Jim Clark. It had a successful
IPO on
August 9,
1995, started the
Mozilla project in January
1998, and became part of
AOL in November
1998. Today, AOL is owned by
AOL Time Warner.
See also Mosaic web browser.