And the company failed to exploit many of its advantages and annoyed many with its unwillingness to work with the grain of the net culture by supporting the Netscape browser or opening up AOL's Instant Messenger to work with other services.

BBC: Screenshot of AOL.com

AOL, also a 5% owner, will infuse Net2Phone into the next versions of its Netscape browser and ICQ messaging.

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Marc was there at the start and helped launch a browser that was an important product but it never made money and was later ignominiously sold to AOL (AOL) and was last seen a decade ago.

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