What happened to some of the old computer staples, like netscape, webcrawler

[volsboy]

and aol. Are most of these entities still in existence?

[Creek Walker]

Netscape merged with AOL in 1998. Mozilla's Firefox browser is largely based on the old Netscape browser, and SSL and javascript are still very much in use, so Netscape's thumbprint is still very much all over Al Gore's internet. These days, though, the only thing the Netscape brand name is being used for is for a very small service provider offered as a subsidiary of AOL.

AOL itself was bought by Time Warner in 2000, then dumped about four years ago. These days it is primarily a web publishing outfit...owning sites like TechCrunch and the wretched Huffington Post. AOL also attempted the network of local journalism websites called Patch. But it has been a miserable failure and will probably be abandoned altogether soon.

Webcrawler is still there but it's pretty irrelevant these days.

[BanditVol]

Actuallt aol bought time warner.  time warner wasnt hsppy about it and aol basically gave them a divorce.

[73Volgrad]

They went the way of the dinosaurs.

[SmokeyJoe]

Netscape merged with AOL in 1998. Mozilla's Firefox browser is largely based on the old Netscape browser, and SSL and javascript are still very much in use, so Netscape's thumbprint is still very much all over Al Gore's internet. These days, though, the only thing the Netscape brand name is being used for is for a very small service provider offered as a subsidiary of AOL.

AOL itself was bought by Time Warner in 2000, then dumped about four years ago. These days it is primarily a web publishing outfit...owning sites like TechCrunch and the wretched Huffington Post. AOL also attempted the network of local journalism websites called Patch. But it has been a miserable failure and will probably be abandoned altogether soon.

Webcrawler is still there but it's pretty irrelevant these days.

Al Gore's internet, and the wretched Huffington Post. The interwebz is IN FACT a socialist, government invention.