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Comment by redblacktree

7 months ago

I am confused by this comment too. I don't recall ever being asked to pay for Netscape. (not that I would have, at 12ish)

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gbeeson  7 months ago

I clearly remember it being boxed and on a shelf along side Internet Explorer for like $40 at CompUSA. Nearly an entire isle for browsers.

  • scarface_74  7 months ago

    Yes, that was for people who didn’t know how to connect to Netscape’s official FTP server and download it directly

scsh  7 months ago

It was never required to pay for it. As was common with software back then, the free download was a fully featured "evaluation" version denoted by an "N" appended to the version number. That didn't last long though and it just stayed free.

There was a "Gold" version they sold at retail for some time that had a WYSIWYG editor in it, until they made it standard as part of the Communicator suite.