Today, on April 11, 1994:
Software programmer Marc Andreesen, then 22 years old, and venture capitalist Jim Clark, the co-founder of Silicon Graphics Inc., founded Mosaic Communications Corp. to commercialize the Internet browser.
The company later changes its name to Netscape.
Netscape went on to be acquired by AOL (Now under Yahoo) in 1999.
One year before the acquisition, Netscape released the source code for its browser and created the Mozilla Organization.
An early Netscape employee Brendan Eich created the JavaScriptprogramming language, the most widely used language for client-side scripting of web pages and a founding engineer of Netscape Lou Montulli created HTTP cookies.
The company also developed SSL which was used for securing online communications before its successor TLStook over.