By Henes Pitt
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I am a web developer. I love technology and have a passion of writing articles about technology news, especially new products.
Articles Source: Exciting History Track Of Web Browsers
In modern society, web browser is getting more and more popular to Internet users. It’s easy to list some famous names such as Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Apple Safari, Opera and so on. Furthermore, it’s quite interesting to get some insights into the history of such well-renowned browsers.
NCSA Mosaic (1993)
If WorldWideWeb/Nova is considered as the first web browser, NCSA Mosaic deserves to be the first most popular non-commercial one. Based on Berners-Lee’s idea, two students of Illinois College named Marc Andresseen and Eric Bina developed a version of Mosaic for X-Windows on Unix computers in February, 1993.
Mosaic supports for sound, video clips, forms support, bookmarks, and history files, and is supplied for free.
WorldWideWeb (1990)
Do you know that the beginning “www” at each website short for ‘WorldWideWeb’, the first web browser written by Tim Berners-Lee on a NeXT computer? He played a crucial role in WorldWideWeb development.
However, the browser itself has trouble in operation scope which discourages potential users.
Netscape (1994)
After graduation, Andresseen cooperated with Jim Clark – leader of Silicon Graphics to develop Mosaic Communications Corporations. Its first product was Netscape Navigator released in October 1994.
Like Mosaic, Netscape Navigator quickly became a leading browser with a number of new features such as JavaScript, frames and cookies.
Aftermaths, American Online acquired Netscape in late 1990s, and was the first loser of Internet Explorer which Microsoft released.
Opera (1996)
Telenor coporation hearquater in Norway decided to change the browser’s name MultiTorg Opera into Opera in 1996. Despite equipped with many utilities, Opera could not make a breakthrough in browser market (below 1% in U.S market).
However, the version for the mobile is welcomed all over the world.
Internet Explorer (1995)
When entering browser market, Microsoft quickly launched their Windows 95 operating system, including a Web browser called Internet Explorer.
By 2000, IE’s market share hit record 96%, confirming the leading web browser role.
Safari (2003)
Apple officially entered the browser game in 1996 with a new product, Cyberdog, but won little achievements.
However, in 2003, Safari browser was released and became a default browser for OS X and a version of Windows.
Mozilla Firefox (2003)
Quite a few has an idea that Mozilla is the codename of Navigator – a mixing between “Mosaic” and “Killer”. On December 1994, the final beta version, Mozilla 1.0, was released to make it the first commercial web browser.
Due to pressure in trademark violations, “Firebird” has turned into “Firefox” which is considered as the first challenger to Internet Explorer so far.
Chrome (2008)
At the beginning, although CEO of Google, Eric Schmidt strongly opposed to joining in the browser game, the founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page still gathered some old friends to create Chrome.
At the end, Schimidt was convinced and Chrome has become the third popular browser worldwide after IE and Firefox.
About the Author:
I am a web developer. I love technology and have a passion of writing articles about technology news, especially new products.
Articles Source: Exciting History Track Of Web Browsers
