HISTORY OF BROWSERS

Timeline of browsers

• 1990 – The WorldWideWeb (not to be confused with the World Wide Web) was the first browser ever created by W3C Director Tim Berners-Lee, then renamed Nexus to differentiate from the actual World Wide Web. Unlike today, this was the only browser and the only way to access the web.
• 1992 – Lynx was a texted-based browser that couldn’t display any graphic content.
• 1993 – Mosaic was the first browser to allow images embedded in text making it “the world’s first most popular browser”.
• 1994 – A noticeable improvement to Mosaic came Netscape Navigator.
• 1995 – Internet Explorer made its debut as Microsoft’s first web browser.
• 1996 – Opera started as a research project in 1994 that finally went public two years later. This was also arguably the beginning of the browser wars, mainly between IE 3 and Navigator 3 as Internet Explorer inched ahead with new capabilities.
• 2003 – Apple’s Safari browser was released specifically for Macintosh computers instead of Navigator.
• 2004 – Mozilla launched Firefox as Netscape Navigator faded out.
• 2007 – Mobile Safari was introduced as Apple’s mobile web browser and continues to dominate the iOS market.
• 2008 – Google Chrome appeared to soon take over the browser market.
• 2011 – Opera Mini was released to focus on the fast-growing mobile browser market.
• 2015 – Microsoft Edge was born to combat Google.