BBC News has a brief eulogy for Netscape Navigator. I started using Mosaic early in 1994, and migrated to Netscape almost as soon as it was released. Those were heady times, where platform choice was less about using an efficient tool and more about being on the side of everything good and wholesome. It was a sad day when the mighty Netscape, who once stood toe-to-toe with Microsoft, was sold to AOL. We should have known that the good guys only win in the movies.

There's more on Netscape at Wikipedia.