AOL Pulls Plug on Netscape Web Browser

December 29, 2007 By ANICK JESDANUN, AP Internet Writer
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(AP) -- Netscape Navigator, the world's first commercial Web browser and the launch pad of the Internet boom, will be pulled off life support Feb. 1 after a 13-year run.


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Doug_Huffman
Dec 29, 2007

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Now if Ah Oh helL will just pull the plug on itself, maybe it can take M$ and G00gle with it.
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Nice google hating there, edgy.
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