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History of Internet Browser

Francis Grengia Bernardo and

Edward Paulo GanuelasApril 13th, 2010

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Table of Contents

• What is Web Browser?

• Web Browsers and its Timeline

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Conclusion• References

• Q/A

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What is Web Browsers?

• A Web browser is a application that interprets

the coding language of the Web in graphic

form

• This allows anyone to “browse the Web” by

simple point and click navigation 1

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The Browsers and its Timeline

• 1991 WorldWideWeb browser is released

 – Created by Tim Berners-Lee

 – Ran on NeXSTEP OS

 – Renamed to Nexus

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The Browsers and its Timeline

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The Browsers and its Timeline

• 1993 Mosaic is released

 – Released Nov 1, 1993

 – Helped make the internet popular

 – Introduced the web to the masses

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The Browsers and its Timeline

• 1994 : Netscape is formed by Marc

Andreessen and Jim Clark

 – April 4: Mosaic Communication Corporation

 – Oct 13: Mosaic Netscape 0.9 Released

 – Nov 14: Netscape Communication

 – Dec 15: Netscape 1.0 Released

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The Browsers and its Timeline

• 1995 Internet Explorer

 – Internet 1.0 (Aug 24), Internet Explorer 2.0 (Nov

27) release,

 – The First Browser War

• Microsoft answers the release of Netscape Navigator

with its own browser, called Internet Explorer,

effectively starting off the first browser for market

dominance.

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The Browsers and its Timeline

• 1996 Opera is released to the public

it released on Dec 1, 1996 and The first public

release of the Opera Browser was version 2.12.

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The Browsers and its Timeline

• 1998 Mozilla is formed

 – Jan 22 1998 Netscape starts the open source

Mozilla project to develop the next generation of 

Communicator.

 – Internet explorer 5 released.

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The Browsers and its Timeline

• 2002 IE usage reaches dominating proportions

• The end of the First Browser War

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The Browsers and its Timeline

• 2003 apple’s safari makes its debut 

 – Safari beta (jan 7)

final version isMac OS X v10.3 default browser

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The Browsers and its Timeline

• 2004 Firefox 1.0 released and 2nd browser

war

 – Firefox 1.0 released on Nov 9 2004 and already

with a huge following of early adopters via their

beta releases.

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The Browsers and its Timeline

• 2006 internet explorer 7 is released

 – October 2006, Microsoft releases version 7 of 

their browser, adopting some features form its

open source competition (firefox) such as tabbedbrowsing and anti-phishing protection.

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The Browsers and its Timeline

• 2008 Google Chrome, Browser War Intensifies

 – Google launches its own web browser, entering

into the browser battles in market share,

Lightweight, fast and surprisingly stable comparedto early releases of other web browsers, the

second browser war gains another strong

competitor

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The Browsers and its Timeline

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Conclusion

• Without web browsers, the web would not be

here as we know today

• The ultimate winners of the web browser wars

are the end-users.

• Which Web Browser do YOU use?

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References

1. http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-a-web-browser.htm

2. http://www.liewcf.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/world-first-web-browser-1.jpg 

3. http://media.boygeniusreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Browser-Share-Jan-101.jpg

• http://www.livinginternet.com/w/wi_browse.htm 

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http://www.newfangled.com/history_web_browsers • http://www.xtimeline.com/timeline/Web-browser-

history

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Q/A

• Any Questions?

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