Read his famous "Internet Tidal Wave" memo, sent to the troops May 26, 1995, over a year after the browser company known as Netscape launched.

By the time other browsers catch up, Netscape has made even more additions.

When the Microsoft case finally concluded, for instance, Netscape was already irrelevant.

This was the reason it desperately wanted — no, needed — to take down Netscape in 1996.

Yoffie, a professor at the Harvard Business School and the co-author of “Competing on Internet Time,” a book that chronicled the battle between Netscape and Microsoft.