Netscape Now

19 Sep, 2026

PLAY THIS SHIT LOUD OR NOT AT ALL

Not sure why this needs to exist but it does: NETSCAPE NOW

SOME HISTORY

• The fast and easy way to provide your site visitors with one-click access to Netscape Navigator
• The Netscape Now button may only be used with the permission of Netscape
• To promote Netscape Navigator, Netscape developed the "Netscape Now" program
• By Oct 1996 a site could choose a 2.0 or a 3.0 button
• Netscape Now 2.0 Usage Guidelines
• Why we are still using 88x31 buttons
• A Netscape button appears in the collage on the cover of Time

THE COLLECTIONS

• textfiles.com: Netscape and 88x31 (Jason Scott)
• Wayback Machine captures of home.netscape.com
• hellnet.work 88×31 archive (not harvested)
• SillyDog701: Netscape Now! buttons, collected by Peter Evans

ARTIFACTS

• The Mozilla Team
• Netscape Business Card

TRIVIA

• Pressing M toggles music on/off
• Available scenes: solo (shown at startup), rain, grid, orbit, tunnel, marquee, swarm, conga, wave, kaleido, comets, beatdown
• Load a specific scene with these keys: 1–9, 0, -, =
• The 7 music tracks were generated using Suno
• If you listen long enough there's a "chill" remix