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Ten Years of Web Browsing

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the browse-baby-browse dept.

AnamanFan writes "Today in 1993, a group of students at the University of Illinois released a little program called Mosaic. News.com.com.com has a special four-part series on the anniversary. I for one will celebrate by spending extra time with Mozilla and Camino." Slashdot marked the anniversary a little while ago.

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  1. Uhh... by iamdrscience · · Score: 4, Informative

    ...but mosaic wasn't the first web browser, just the first that most people used. Tim Berners-Lee wrote a graphical browser for NeXT -- his preferred platform at the time and the GUI platform he was most familiar with. For the Unixes there were only lame command-line/text-mode browsers at the time, but even those count as browsers that predate Mosaic.

    1. Re:Uhh... by drgroove · · Score: 4, Informative

      Tim's web browser was called "WorldWideWeb" ...
      W3.org

  2. timeline by ih8apple · · Score: 5, Informative

    Here's a history provided by w3. (Note: mozilla alpha released in February 1993. Already 50 HTTP servers in existence.)

    Here's a really cool seminar given at CERN in Feb 1993 on the potential of the web browser.

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    Why do I h8 apple?
  3. Another Timeline by tiltowait · · Score: 4, Informative

    here. And yes, starting with Sputnik really does make sense, that little tin ball spurned more scientific research (and translation Russian services) that some people realize.