NetBeans 10th Birthday Celebration: NetBeans IDE Over Time

In Summer 1998, Roman Stanek, Ian Formánek, Yarda Tulach, and Helena Stolka founded the NetBeans project. The NetBeans user interface developed and changed greatly over time: Have a look at our collection of historic screenshots — do you remember?

1999: Forte For Java 2.0 / NetBeans Developer X2

 

1999: Forte For Java ("NetBeans IDE 3.0")

2000: NetBeans IDE 3.1

2001: NetBeans IDE 3.3

2002: NetBeans IDE 3.4

2003: NetBeans IDE 3.5

2004: NetBeans IDE 3.6

2005: NetBeans IDE 4.0

2006: NetBeans IDE 5.0

2006/2007: NetBeans IDE 5.5 and 5.5.1

2007: NetBeans IDE 6.0

2008: NetBeans IDE 6.1

2008: NetBeans IDE 6.5