Screen Based Communication 2

Browsers From The Beginning

• Line Mode Browser – feb 1992. This was also brought to us by Berners Lee. It was the first browser to support multiple platforms.
• Viola WWW Browser released – march 1992. This is widely suggested to be the world’s first popular browser. It brought with it a stylesheet and scripting language, long before JavaScript and CSS.
• Mosaic Browser released – Jan 5th 1993. Mosaic was really highly rated when it first came out. It was developed at University of Illinois.
• Cello Browser released – June 8th, 1993. This was the first browser available for Windows.
• Netscape Navigator 1.1 released – March 1995. This was the first browser to introduce tables to HTML.
• Opera 1.0 released – April 1995. This was originally a research project for a Norwegian telephone company. The browser is still available today and is currently at version 12.
• Internet Explorer 1.0 released – August 1995. Microsoft decided to get in on the act when its Windows operating system ’95 was released. This was the browser that ran exclusively on that.