History of Web Browsers

  • The Beginning : Creation of the World Wide Web

    The Beginning : Creation of the World Wide Web
    The World Wide Web was the beginning to a new age for computers.
  • The Beginning : Mosaic

    The Beginning : Mosaic
    The first web browser to use a graphical user interface. Created by Marc Andreessen. This will later see a bitter lawsuit against Microsoft's Internet Explorer.
  • Creation of Internet Explorer

    Creation of Internet Explorer
    Because Microsoft Owner Bill Gates was afraid that Netscape could steal the show from them, they created their own browser named "Internet Explorer"
  • Microsoft Vs. Mosaic

    Microsoft Vs. Mosaic
    Microsoft eventually got in trouble not just for the creation of Internet Explorer, but for the way they went about it. Netscape one the court battle and Microsoft was given a harsh settlement forcing the company to split in half.
  • Creation of Opera

    Creation of Opera
    It's was a research project for Norwegian telecoms company, Telenor before being publicly released in 1996.
  • Apple Gets in the Cab: ICab

    Apple Gets in the Cab: ICab
    Apple started to create the own browsers with their first being ICab
  • Netscape Navigator's Death: Mozilla

    Netscape Navigator's Death: Mozilla
    After Netscape Navigator was dominated by Microsoft overall (Even though they won the court battle), they turned the application into an open-sourced application called "Mozilla"
  • A Major Combination: Lunascape

    A Major Combination: Lunascape
    Lunascape is an unusual browser that contains three rendering engines: Gecko (used in Mozilla Firefox), WebKit (used in Apple's Safari), and Trident (used in Microsoft Internet Explorer).
  • Reincarnation of Netscape: Firefox

    Reincarnation of Netscape: Firefox
    Mozilla Corporation picked back up on Netscape with it's new name as Mozilla. Using the open-sourced code, the created a new browser named Mozilla Firefox
  • Apple Keeps Driving: Safari

    Apple Keeps Driving: Safari
    After ICab, they release another browser changing the entire GUI, naming it, Safari
  • Maxthon Enters The Scene

    Maxthon Enters The Scene
    A Chinese company in Beijing began developing a freeware browser known as Maxthon
  • Offspring of Mozilla:

    Offspring of Mozilla:
    Mozilla Corporation started to work on only Firefox and Thunderbird, leaving SeaMonkey to the community.
  • Change: NetSurf

    Change: NetSurf
    An open-source web browser that is made to be fast and portable.
  • Google Is Here! Google Chrome

    Google Is Here! Google Chrome
    Having the greatest search engine in the world, why not expand on it? That's what Google was thinking when they created Google Chrome.
  • Forget Internet Explorer, Welcome To The Edge!

    Forget Internet Explorer, Welcome To The Edge!
    Microsoft knew Internet Explorer simply wasn't making the cut anymore. So they created Microsoft Edge exclusively for Windows 10 (Date Listed is the Latest Stable Release)