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The Resume

    (December 15, 1994-March 1, 2008)
    Created by the Netscape Communications Corporation
    Peak usage share was 70% (1996)
    Netscape Communicator released (1997)
    Development the subject of 'Netscape Time' by Jim Clark and Owen Edwards
    Netscape 1.0 - December 15, 1994
    Netscape Navigator 2.0 - March 1996
    Netscape Navigator 3.0 - August 1996
    Netscape Communicator 4.0 - June 1997
    Netscape Communicator 4.5 - June 1998
    Netscape 6.0 - November 2000
    Netscape 7.0 - August 2002
    Netscape 8.0 - May 2005

Why Netscape might be annoying:

    It's Mozilla mascot is a rip-off of Godzilla.
    It plummeted from a solid lead against Internet Explorer to obscurity in a short period of time.
    It was acquired by AOL (1999).
    AOL released version 6 based on barely adequate code, making it a huge failure (2000).
    It is unlikely it will ever regain the market as the #1 web browser, again.

Why Netscape might not be annoying:

    It was the first browser to show the webpage slowly loading instead of showing a blank screen and forcing a user to wait for everything to load.
    It created many innovations to web browsing, such as cookies, frames and JavaScript.
    They split off most of the Communicator code and made it open source, which lead to the creation of Mozilla Firefox (1998)
    It was the first commercial web browser.

Credit: Captain Howdy


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Year In Review:

    In 2023, Out of 5 Votes: 60.0% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 5 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 12 Votes: 91.67% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 5 Votes: 60.0% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 3 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 6 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 8 Votes: 37.50% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 5 Votes: 60.0% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 2 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 8 Votes: 62.50% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 9 Votes: 22.22% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 7 Votes: 57.14% Annoying
    In 2011, Out of 13 Votes: 69.23% Annoying
    In 2010, Out of 113 Votes: 65.49% Annoying
    In 2009, Out of 24 Votes: 58.33% Annoying
    In 2008, Out of 42 Votes: 61.90% Annoying
    In 2007, Out of 74 Votes: 67.57% Annoying
    In 2006, Out of 142 Votes: 71.13% Annoying
    In 2005, Out of 149 Votes: 63.09% Annoying