Web Browsers
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Web browsers
By Jonathan Silva
A Web Browser is a software application for retrieving, presenting, and traversing information resources on the web. Browsing internetwas never same in all times, internet was developed by DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) to share information on defense research between the connecteduniversities and defense research facilities; World’s first web browser was called Worldwide Web that was coded by Tim Berners-Lee. In 1990, it was the only way to see the web,Mosaic was a major improvement in web clients that made web browsing more friendly with features like icons, bookmarks and more attractive interface, by 1994, Mosaic had a userbase of several million users worldwide, Marc Andreessen, the leader of Mosaic team at NCSA, soon started his own company named Netscape, Netscape released NetscapeNavigator in 1994, Netscape Navigator became the most used web browser of its time and reached 90% of all web use at its peak, in 1995, Internet Explorer was included with Windowsthat created tough completion for Mosaic, Microsoft was able to get biggest share on web browsers peaked at 95% by 2002.
Opera released its own web browser in 1996; Operanever achieved widespread use as a desktop web browser. On June 2003, Apple publically launched web browser for their operating system, Mac OS X, named Safari. In 2004, BlakeRoss started an experimental project (Firefox) as a branch of Mozilla project; Firefox project has undergone several name changes. Initially it was named Phoenix but laterit was renamed, Google Chrome’s first Beta version was released on 2 September 2008 for Microsoft Windows, Google Chrome got famous because of its light and simple looks.
By Jonathan Silva
A Web Browser is a software application for retrieving, presenting, and traversing information resources on the web. Browsing internetwas never same in all times, internet was developed by DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) to share information on defense research between the connecteduniversities and defense research facilities; World’s first web browser was called Worldwide Web that was coded by Tim Berners-Lee. In 1990, it was the only way to see the web,Mosaic was a major improvement in web clients that made web browsing more friendly with features like icons, bookmarks and more attractive interface, by 1994, Mosaic had a userbase of several million users worldwide, Marc Andreessen, the leader of Mosaic team at NCSA, soon started his own company named Netscape, Netscape released NetscapeNavigator in 1994, Netscape Navigator became the most used web browser of its time and reached 90% of all web use at its peak, in 1995, Internet Explorer was included with Windowsthat created tough completion for Mosaic, Microsoft was able to get biggest share on web browsers peaked at 95% by 2002.
Opera released its own web browser in 1996; Operanever achieved widespread use as a desktop web browser. On June 2003, Apple publically launched web browser for their operating system, Mac OS X, named Safari. In 2004, BlakeRoss started an experimental project (Firefox) as a branch of Mozilla project; Firefox project has undergone several name changes. Initially it was named Phoenix but laterit was renamed, Google Chrome’s first Beta version was released on 2 September 2008 for Microsoft Windows, Google Chrome got famous because of its light and simple looks.
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