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Browser Wars
It was called Internet Explorer. And version 1 was released fifteen days after Netscape's IPO. The browser team at Microsoft was still very small, so the code itself was (somewhat ironically) licensed from Spyglass Mosaic, a fork of the code Andreessen himself had worked on. IE was, at first, far from impressive.
Of Mozilla
The team called it Mozilla Phoenix, seeing as how this new version was rising from the ashes of an all but dead browser. The rewrite finally made the browser a standalone app, casting off the suite of tools it used to come bundled with, like extensions for IRC and email. It was faster, leaner and incorporated all the latest web standards.
The Gift of Code
There is a period time known as Web 2.0, dating back to the early 2000's. It was a turbulent time. So much so that among the many consequences of that era was a fissure in HTML standards, when a faction of browser makers split off fromT the W3C to create the Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group, also known as the WHATWG.