{"id":15194,"date":"2019-11-24T23:22:30","date_gmt":"2019-11-24T23:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/aol-buys-netscape-3\/"},"modified":"2019-11-24T23:22:30","modified_gmt":"2019-11-24T23:22:30","slug":"aol-buys-netscape-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/aol-buys-netscape-3\/","title":{"rendered":"AOL Buys Netscape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/aol-netscape-logos.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[3934]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3937 alignleft\" alt=\"aol-netscape-logos\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/ab7e5__aol-netscape-logos-300x244.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"244\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/aol-netscape-logos-300x244.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/aol-netscape-logos.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>November 24, 1998<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/2100-1023-218360.html\" target=\"_blank\">AOL announces it will buy Netscape Communications in a stock-for-stock deal worth approximately $  4.2 billion<\/a>. At the time it was considered a move by AOL and Netscape to merge forces to better compete with Microsoft in the browser and Internet provider markets. However, Microsoft&#8217;s dominance in the personal computer market could not be stopped and the Netscape browser lost almost all marketshare to Internet Explorer. In 2003 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/2003\/05\/30\/cx_da_0530topnews.html\" target=\"_blank\">Microsoft settled a monopoly lawsuit with AOL<\/a> (then merged with Time Warner) for $  750 million over the loss of value of Netscape. AOL itself, once a dominant Internet Service Provider, slowly lost their subscriber base with the evolution of broadband Internet in the 2000&#8217;s and operates primarily as a media conglomerate, although their dial-up service still subscribes approximately 2 million users as of 2013.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/11\/24\/aol-buys-netscape\/\">AOL Buys Netscape<\/a> is original content of <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\">This Day in Tech History<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/8ca4c__12998847.gif\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/tracking.feedpress.it\/link\/1823\/12998847\">This Day in Tech History<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tech History provided by This Day in Tech History.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>November 24, 1998 AOL announces it will buy Netscape Communications in a stock-for-stock deal worth approximately $ 4.2 billion. At the time it was considered a move by AOL and Netscape to merge forces to better compete with Microsoft in the browser and Internet provider markets. However, Microsoft&#8217;s dominance in the personal computer market could [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[414,2844],"class_list":["post-15194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today-in-tech","tag-buys","tag-netscape"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15194"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}