Firefox rises from ashes of abandoned Netscape, San Francisco Chronicle
January 28th, 2008 | 9:49 pm PST
Wow, and I remember when.

Firefox rises from ashes of abandoned Netscape
Netscape as a company had the trajectory of a ballistic missile. Its public offering in 1995 set off the dot-com boom. But Microsoft Corp. fought its efforts to make browser software the new operating system of the digital economy, and not even a Justice Department antitrust investigation could save it.

