[McP]

It was a poor choice of name in that it gives no hint as to what the application might actually do.

While on holiday and in need of some internet, a (highly intelligent) friend searched around the local town and could only found a Mac in a hotel lobby. Despite being very motivated she was unable to persuade it to open a browser and eventually gave up and was left wondering how Macs could possibly be described as intuitive or user friendly.

[eridius]

And "Firefox" and "Chrome" are sensible names?

[habitue]

Ah, now "Internet Explorer" there's a name! What does it do? Explores the Internet of course!

[eridius]

I still have a fondness for the name "Netscape Navigator". It seems a shame that we never started using the term "netscape" to refer to the internet.

[pavel_lishin]

I'm so used to Netscape being a brand name, it took me at least ten seconds to break the word up into its constituent words, and understand what you meant.

[kragen]

There were people who did ("You can see my new page on netscape!") but maybe not in the way you're thinking. At the time (1994) we all called the browser "Netscape", once we got used to not calling it "Mozilla".