Boxed Netscape Navigator, Computer History Museum

1995

Retail-boxed Netscape Navigator in the Computer History Museum collection. Netscape shipped SSL in 1994-95, putting encryption into an ordinary consumer product for the first time; SSL 3.0 in 1996 is the direct ancestor of TLS and of the padlock icon. Export rules meant the international build was deliberately crippled to 40-bit keys. The subject dates from 1995; the photograph itself is later.