End of an era as come as AOL officially retires Netscape,the browser that brought World Wide Web to computer screens in every corner of the planet and connecting us like never before.

Leading news website Betanews has a detailed report on the sad dismissal of the web browser which had played a major in shaping the today's internet.

March 31, 2008 will mark 10 years since the Netscape development team opened up the source code to the browser that ushered in the Internet era. With its acquisition of Netscape in 1999, AOL continued that effort and helped launch the Mozilla Foundation into an organization that has taken on Microsoft and shaped the Web as we know it today.

As we look forward to Mozilla's 10th anniversary, we can also look back and appreciate the Netscape, the browser that helped kick-start the commercial web.