High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! NeoPlanet was a graphical web browser released in 1998 and was based on the Trident rendering engine (a technology developed by Microsoft for use in Internet Explorer). It was designed to be a customizable browser with content channels and search facilities, as well as email and download management. Skins were a prominent feature of NeoPlanet; it was one of the first browsers to be fully skinnable. Lycos once offered a branded version of the browser.