Web Browser History

Web browser-based text first, because it is a system with a graphical interface is not commonly used at that time. After the graphics-based systems started being used, a student named Marc Andresen of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States, create a first graphical web browser running on Windows and UNIX operating system (Motif based). Web browser named Mosaic.

Marc Andresen approves the bid to create a company with the name Mosaic Communications, which later became Netscape Communications. Marc Andresen makes a first popular web browser used by the public, who called the name of Netscape Navigator. Netscape Navigator is a commercial web browser, but eventually became Netscape Navigator can be obtained free of charge. Meanwhile, the Mosaic is free no longer transmitted development, and submitted to the NCSA (National Computing for Supercomputer Applications). Because NCSA does not have permission to commercialize product Mosaic, NCSA Mosaic was eventually sold to Spyglass, which ultimately makes Mosaic a commercial web browser.


Microsoft licensed Mosaic from Spyglass buy, so in the end product released web browser called Internet Explore with the name.

In 1996 therefore, they new web browser called Opera, although not yet achieved widespread usage, Opera has a big stock market is a fast going web and mobile phone browsers, which are installed in more than 40 million mobile phone.

In 1998, Netscape Navigator launched the Mozilla Foundation in an effort to produce a competitive web browser using open source software mobile.

In 2003, Apple’s Safari was first released in beta. In October 2009, it has a dominant share-based Apple’s browsing the web, accounting for more than 4% of the total browser market.

In the year 2008, came back a new web browser called Google Chrome is Web Kit based.

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