{"id":176663,"date":"2016-08-22T08:00:51","date_gmt":"2016-08-22T06:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=176663"},"modified":"2016-08-22T08:02:54","modified_gmt":"2016-08-22T06:02:54","slug":"netscape-navigator-3-0-20-year-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/176663-netscape-navigator-3-0-20-year-anniversary.html","title":{"rendered":"Netscape Navigator 3.0 20-year anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Netscape_(web_browser)\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Netscape Navigator<\/strong><\/a> was the dominant web browser in the nineties, following its commercial release in December 1994.<\/p>\n<p>At the time, Netscape Navigator was the most advanced Internet browser available.<\/p>\n<p>Netscape Navigator 3.0, which was released in 1996 and is celebrating its 20-year anniversary, was the first to face serious competition in the form of Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0.<\/p>\n<p>Netscape 3.0 introduced many new features &#8211; such as new plug-ins, background colours for tables, the archive attribute, and the applet element.<\/p>\n<p>This led to Netscape 3.0 becoming a huge success and\u00a0gaining over 90% market share.<\/p>\n<p>Its dominance came to an end after Microsoft bundled Internet Explorer with Windows 98.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on browsers<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/163835-opera-mini-gets-built-in-ad-blocker.html\">Opera Mini gets built-in ad blocker<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/162726-unlimited-free-vpn-built-into-the-opera-browser.html\">Unlimited free VPN built into the Opera browser<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Netscape Navigator 3.0 was released 20 years ago, dominating the Internet at the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":176665,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,16],"tags":[36,38635,7715],"class_list":["post-176663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","category-software","tag-active","tag-netscape","tag-netscape-navigator"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176663"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176663"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":176671,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176663\/revisions\/176671"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}