Netscape Navigator was rejected by a subsidiary of AOL.
== History and development ===== Origin ===Netscape Navigator was inspired by the success of the Mosaic web browser, which was co-written by Marc Andreessen, a part-time employee of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois
 Barksdale insisted on the name change because Communicator was a general-purpose client application, which contained the Navigator browser

