Freedom of Information 1994-1995

If Apple represented the democratization of tools, then Netscape represented the democratization of information. What would happen if all information were available to everyone, all the time. What kind of a world would it create. There was an underlying "knowing" at early Netscape, that it was as much a duty as it was a business strategy. You instinctively knew that if you could remove the friction in the worlds information systems, it would have a remarkable impact on our times and in fact, all times.

You knew the first time you saw the prototype Netscape browser that the world was about to change forever.
And it did. Netscape was an exercise in vision and scale, managed by a team of long-ball hitters, senior enough to understand the scale of the business opportunity and passionate enough to believe they could, and would, profoundly change the nature of communications, software, information, retail, publishing and a myriad of other businesses - forever.

Today, more than 15 years after we introduced the original Netscape Navigator, the world of business and the world
at large, are still riding the waves of the resulting innovation.