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Thursday, February 25, 2021

Basic timeline of web browsers

This post is a basic timeline of web browsers. There are 14 events listed below chronologically. Source: Wikipedia

• 1990: WorldWideWeb is released by Tim Berners-Lee (first web browser)
• 1991: ViolaWWW is released by eXperimental Computing Facility
• 1992: Lynx is released by Distributed Computing Group
• 1992: Erwise is released by students at Helsinki University
• 1993: Mosaic is released by NCSA
• 1994: Netscape Navigator is released by Netscape
• 1995: Opera is released by Opera Software
• 1995: Internet Explorer is released by Microsoft
• 1995: IBM WebExplorer is released by IBM
• 1998: Mozilla Foundation is established by Netscape
• 1999: Firefox is released by Mozilla Foundation
• 2003: Safari is released by Apple
• 2008: Chrome is released by Google
• 2015: Edge is released by Microsoft