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Web Browser History

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  • Tim Berners Lee

    Tim Berners Lee
    Tim Berners Lee wrote the first web browser on a NeXT computer, called WorldWideWeb, finishing the first version on Christmas day, 1990. He released the program to a number of people at CERN in March, 1991, introducing the web to the high energy physics community, and beginning its spread.

  • Robert Cailliau

    Robert Cailliau
    After a visit from Robert Cailliau, a group of students at Helsinki University of Technology joined together to write a web browser as a master's project. Since the acronym for their department was called "OTH", they called the browser "erwise", as a joke on the word "otherwise". The final version was released in April, 1992, and included several advanced features, but wasn't developed further after the students gra

  • Marc Andreessen

    Marc Andreessen
    Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina from the NCSA released the first version of Mosaic for X-Windows on Unix computers in February, 1993.

  • Tim Berners Lee

    Berners-Lee and a student at CERN named Jean-Francois Groff ported the WorldWideWeb application from the NeXT environment to the more common C language in 1991 and 1992, calling the new browser libwww. Groff later started the first web design company, InfoDesign.ch.

  • Commercial Rights

    August, 1994, NCSA assigned commercial rights to Mosaic to Spyglass, Inc., which subsequently licensed the technology to several other companies, including Microsoft for use in Internet Explorer.

  • Netscapes Release

    Netscapes Release
    In October, 1994, Netscape released the the first beta version of their browser, Mozilla 0.96b, over the Internet. On December 15, the final version was released, Mozilla 1.0, making it the first commercial web browser.

  • Microsoft

    Microsoft
    On August 23rd, 1995, Microsoft released their Windows 95 operating system, including a Web browser called Internet Explorer

  • Opera 2.1

    Opera 2.1 was first made available on the Internet in the summer of 1996.

  • Netscapes Dominance

    Explorer had a third of market share, and passed Netscape to became the leading web browser in 1999.

  • Mozilla

    Netscape was then developed called Mozilla, which was the internal name for the old Netscape browser, and released in 2002.