“What I found was in the Netscape browser and in the Internet Explorer browser, they had buried in there a feature of offline browsing.”
Netscape Navigator
By Netscape Communications
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“everyone went out and bought Netscape Explorer or whatever it was called like Netscape Navigator.”
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