10 Technologies That Failed To Retain Their Dominance


#2 Netscape

Netscape browser was easily the most advanced ones in early 1990s and was therefore an instant success, becoming market leader while still in beta. Its next version added a full mail reader called Netscape Mail, thus transforming Netscape from a mere web browser to an Internet suite. During this period, both the browser and the suite together were known as Netscape Navigator.

It was the browser of choice for 70 to 80 percent of Web surfers. But that advantage literally was wiped out in a remarkable fashion. You had to pay to put Navigator on corporate-owned computers; IE was free to everybody, and Microsoft's work to integrate the browser into its omnipresent OS helped to launch itself into glory. Years passed and in 2012, Netscape saw only single digit market share  and it’s now a subsidiary of AOL.

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