The future is fast for web browsers
It is nearly 10 years since the event that sparked dotcom investment mania: the August 1995 initial public offering of Netscape Communications, the company that created the first internet browser.
Quickly overtaken by Microsoft, Netscape was bought less than four years later by America Online and has seen its share of the browser market shrink to about 2 per cent.
It is ironic, then, that ideas hatched at Netscape are helping to advance a fresh round of innovation on the internet
