Picture a world without Google, without eBay or Amazon or broadband, where few people have even heard of IPOs. That was reality just a decade ago. The company that changed it—bringing us into the Internet age—was a brilliant flash in the pan called Netscape. For the tenth anniversary of its IPO, FORTUNE recruited dozens of players to tell the story of the startup in their own words…
That’s from Remembering Netscape: The Birth of the Web in Fortune
I remember installing a web browser on my MIPS R3000 DECstation in about 1993 or 1994 and starting to play around with what was just becoming possible. Ten years ago I was actually hosting a couple of web sites. It seems like, in Internet time, even nostalgia happens too fast. 🙁
