Memorable moment in an exceptional year: The Netscape IPO of 1995

On August 9, 1995, Silicon Valley startup Netscape Communications made its stunning market debut and effectively illuminated the emergent World Wide Web for millions of people who, until then, were only vaguely familiar with its potential and promise.

Netscape’s initial public offering of shares stimulated the dot.com boom of the late 1990s and enabled what has been called “the technological, social, and financial tone of the Internet age.”