Web browsing has been the business of everybody. It has something to do with our daily lifestyle; communication and daily news are some. Through the decade it has been develop and still developed to cater to the fast shifting needs of the people.
Teams and people dedicated to advance this need are sprouting from all over the globe. Some are taking time to compete and lead over the others. A short history shows the vitality that in order to understand this, we must take the grasp of knowing its past.
NCSA Mosaic was the first to lead in the row. Its programming team pioneered the first commercial web browser, named as Netscape Navigator. Later, they changed its name to Communicator, for advertising reasons, and then they renamed it back to Netscape from its original Netscape Navigator. This browser led in the business until the powerful marketing team of Microsoft Internet Explorer overtakes them in 1999. The lead of the new company was possible through their distribution efficiency. Then, Netscape tried to surpass the former by creating a free open source software version called Mozilla, which formerly an internal name of Netscape, released around 3 years after the competitor – 2002. Mozilla became very popular and acquired the greatest in the market shares (Non-Windows Platforms), which was credited to its open source foundations. Firefox version, then, followed the success of the Mozilla, was released in 2004.
However, the delineation of history may be short as some other developers also made their contribution to the browsing history.
Tim Berners-Lee was the early authority of web browsing as he introduces the WorldWideWeb, finished on the Christmas of 1990. Later, his libwww, with student at CERN named Jean-Francois Groff, used to enhance the former to a more common C language after a year or two. Then on, the fast development started when developers like Nicola Pellow, Robert Cailliau, Pei Wei, Tony Johnson, Robert Cailliau, Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina, Dave Raggett, Lou Montulli, Tom Bruce, Jon Stephenson von Tetzchner and Geir Ivarsoy, O’Reilly and Associates, and Navisoft take the shot of creating the Line-mode, Erwise, ViolaWWW, Midas, Samba, Mosaic, Arena, Lynx, Cello, Opera, Internet in a box, and Navipress, respectively. Who can never remember the competition of the great leaders in the business?; Mozilla and Internet Explorer.
The healthy competition of the leaders in the business has started revolution in the Web browsing history. Records shows that with their competition to lead over the other and its claim to take the greatest stake will advance and develop information technology more than ever.
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