Netscape Navigator/Communicator was the first commercial web browser, displacing the free NCSA Mosaic. 1.0 was first released in December 1994, and initially offered advanced features such as progressively rendering pages as they loaded. It quickly gained many other features and capabilities and became the most popular web browser in the mid 1990s. Mosaic Netscape 0.9, a pre-1.0 version, with image of the Mozilla mascot, and the Mosaic logo in the top-right corner. Netscape Navigator was inspired by the success of the Mosaic web browser, which was co-written by Marc Andreessen , a part-time employee of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois .
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