History Early years Netscape Communications wants you to forget all the highway metaphors you've ever heard about the Internet. 2.1.2 Netscape Communicator (versions 4.0–4.8).The Netscape brand is still used, as of 2012, by AOL to market a discount Internet service provider. Under AOL, Netscape's browser development continued until December 2007, when Tom Drapeau, director of AOL's Netscape Brand, announced that the company would stop supporting Netscape software products as of March 1, 2008. The Gecko engine would later be used to power the Mozilla Foundation's Firefox browser. The Mozilla Organization rewrote the entire browser's source code based on the Gecko rendering engine all future Netscape releases were based on this rewritten code. Shortly before its acquisition by AOL, Netscape released the source code for its browser and created the Mozilla Organization to coordinate future development of its product. Netscape stock traded from 1995 until 1999 when it was acquired by AOL in a pooling-of-interests transaction ultimately worth US$10 billion. Netscape is credited with developing the Secure Sockets Layer Protocol (SSL) for securing online communication, which is still widely used, as well as JavaScript, the most widely used language for client-side scripting of web pages. The usage share of Netscape had fallen from over 90-percent in the mid-1990s to less than one-percent by the end of 2006. Netscape's web browser was once dominant in terms of usage share, but lost most of that share to Internet Explorer during the first browser war. When it was an independent company, its headquarters were in Mountain View, California. Netscape Communications (formerly known as Netscape Communications Corporation and commonly known as Netscape) is a US computer services company, best known for Netscape Navigator, its web browser. Marc Andreessen and Jim Clark (founders) James Barksdale (CEO) Mountain View, California, United States (as an independent company)

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