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What Happened on August 8th
August 8, 1995
Netscape Communications Goes Public
Netscape Communications Corp. goes public after generating revenues of $16.6 million in the previous 12 months. Shares jumped from $28 to $75 before closing at $58 the first day. Netscape was co-founded by Marc Andreessen who had earlier written the MOSAIC web browser while a student at the University of Illinois.
@TheNewsOwl I was going to get a job at Netscape then it was frozen because AOL bought 'em.