Fallen Empires: The Netscape Story

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Before Google, social media, and the smartphone, a young programmer and a Silicon Valley veteran built the window through which millions first saw the web. Netscape rose from a university browser project to a multibillion-dollar symbol of the internet age—then collided with Microsoft in a battle that changed software, antitrust law, and the open web forever. Across ten cinematic episodes, we follow Marc Andreessen, Jim Clark, Navigator, the 1995 IPO, the browser war, and the open-source gamble that became Mozilla and Firefox. Hosted by That Mike Hamilton.

Épisodes

  1. 20 août

    The Web Netscape Left Behind

    Netscape survived as an independent company for less than five years, yet its ideas remain inside every modern browser. In the finale, we weigh what the company won and lost: the technical legacy, the IPO model, the danger of defaults, the limits of a head start, and the open-source escape route that still protects competition on the web.

  2. 20 août

    The Afterlife

    Internet Explorer appears unbeatable. Then a lean Mozilla project called Phoenix rises from Netscape’s remains, changes names, and becomes Firefox. Volunteers return browser choice to millions of users, Microsoft begins improving Internet Explorer again, and Google Chrome starts the next great shift in browser power.

  3. 20 août

    The Funeral

    AOL announces a $4.2 billion stock deal for Netscape, and employees gather for what some remember as a funeral. The merger promises a coalition against Microsoft but produces divided priorities, late browser releases and fading relevance. As the Netscape team disappears, AOL helps launch an independent Mozilla Foundation—and the code escapes the empire.

  4. 20 août

    Code Rush

    With its market share collapsing, Netscape makes a radical bet: release the browser source code and invite the world to rebuild it. We follow the March 31, 1998 Mozilla launch, the licensing and governance work behind open source, the risky decision to replace the old engine, and the exhausted engineers captured in the documentary Code Rush.

  5. 20 août

    The Browser Wars

    Feature races make browsers better—and make the web break differently in each one. Netscape battles Microsoft in engineering, standards, contracts, defaults and court while Navigator’s codebase buckles under years of frantic development. This episode separates product competition from platform power and follows the antitrust case that arrived too late to restore Netscape.

  6. 20 août

    The Beast Awakens

    Netscape sees the browser as a platform that could make Windows less important. Microsoft sees an existential threat. Bill Gates declares an “Internet Tidal Wave,” Internet Explorer ships, and the operating-system giant begins using its greatest advantage: distribution. The browser contest becomes a fight over the future of software itself.

  7. 20 août

    The Innovations That Changed Everything

    Secure transactions. Shopping carts. Interactive pages. Netscape helped create SSL, HTTP cookies and JavaScript—technologies still embedded in modern browsing. This episode explains how they work, why they mattered, and how inventions built for convenience and commerce also created lasting problems of privacy, security and browser compatibility.

  8. 20 août

    The Big Bang

    On August 9, 1995, a sixteen-month-old company with no annual profit shocked Wall Street. Netscape’s shares opened at $71 after an offering price of $28, creating instant fortunes and a new Silicon Valley creation myth. This is the IPO that turned the internet into a financial category—and helped light the fuse of the dot-com boom.

  9. 20 août

    Navigator Sets Sail

    Navigator turns an experimental medium into a mass-market experience. Netscape gives individuals the browser, sells businesses the servers, and discovers a platform hiding inside an application. We enter the chaotic Mountain View office, meet the engineers shipping at internet speed, and trace the rise of the browser that came to define the early web.

  10. 20 août

    The Kid Who Wrote a Browser

    Before the web became part of everyday life, Marc Andreessen, Eric Bina and the NCSA team built Mosaic—the first popular graphical web browser. Then Silicon Graphics founder Jim Clark came calling. This episode follows the university project, the frantic founding of Mosaic Communications, the clean-room rewrite that became Navigator, and the moment Netscape opened a window onto the internet.

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À propos

Before Google, social media, and the smartphone, a young programmer and a Silicon Valley veteran built the window through which millions first saw the web. Netscape rose from a university browser project to a multibillion-dollar symbol of the internet age—then collided with Microsoft in a battle that changed software, antitrust law, and the open web forever. Across ten cinematic episodes, we follow Marc Andreessen, Jim Clark, Navigator, the 1995 IPO, the browser war, and the open-source gamble that became Mozilla and Firefox. Hosted by That Mike Hamilton.

Informations

  • Création
    Narratique Studios
  • Années d’activité
    2026
  • Épisodes
    10
  • Classification
    Tous publics
  • Copyright
    © Narratique Studios
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