history & timeline

HISTORY

•Web browser dates back in to the late 1980s, when a variety of technologies laid the foundation for the first Web browser, by Tim Berners-Lee in 1991.

•Web browser or Internet browser is a software application for retrieving, presenting, and traversing information resources on the World Wide Web.

•An information resource is identified by a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) and may be a web page, image, video, or other piece of content.



TIMELINE

•early web browsers( up to present)•


1991 WorldWideWeb (Nexus) · Line Mode Browser (libwww)

1992 ViolaWWW · Erwise · MidasWWW · MacWWW (Samba) · tkWWW

1993 NCSA Mosaic · AMosaic · VMS Mosaic · Cello · Lynx (2.0) · Arena

1994 IBM WebExplorer · Netscape Navigator · MicroMind SlipKnot (1.0) · TradeWave MacWeb · IBrowse · Navipress · Argo · Minuet · AIR Mosaic(Internet in a Box) · Spyglass Mosaic · TCP/Connect II · ANT Fresco

1995 Internet Explorer 1 · Netscape Navigator 2.0 · OmniWeb · WebRouser · Sun WebRunner (HotJava) · Grail · Internet Explorer 2 · Delrina Cyberjack · AOL Web Browser for Macintosh · eWorld Web Browser for Macintosh · NetShark · WebShark · Opera · AMSD Ariadna · UdiWWW · ALynx

1996 Arachne 1.0 · Internet Explorer 3 · Netscape Navigator 3.0 · Oracle PowerBrowser · Apple Cyberdog · INRIA Amaya (.9) · AWeb · VaporWare Voyager · tcpCONNECT4

1997 Internet Explorer 4.0, Netscape Navigator 4.0, Netscape Communicator 4.0, Opera 3.0 , Amaya 1.0

1998 iCab, Mozilla

1999 Amaya 2.0 , Mozilla M3, Internet Explorer 5.0

2000 Konqueror, Netscape 6, Opera 4 , Opera 5 , K-Meleon 0.2, Amaya 3.0 , Amaya 4.0

2001 Internet Explorer 6, Galeon 1.0, Opera 6 , Amaya 5.0

2002 Netscape 7, Mozilla 1.0, Phoenix 0.1, Links 2.0, Amaya 6.0 , Amaya 7.0

2003 Opera 7 , Safari 1.0, Epiphany 1.0, Amaya 8.0

2004 Firefox 1.0, Netscape Browser, OmniWeb 5.0

2005 Safari 2.0, Netscape Browser 8.0, Opera 8., Epiphany1.8, Amaya 9.0  , AOL Explorer1.0, Maxthon
1.0, Shiira 1.0

2006 SeaMonkey 1.0, K-Meleon 1.0, Galeon 2.0, Camino 1.0, Firefox 2.0, Avant 11, iCab 3, Opera 9 , Internet Explorer 7, Sputnik

2007 Maxthon 2.0, Netscape Navigator 9, NetSurf 1.0, Flock 1.0, Safari 3.0, Conkeror

2008 Konqueror 4, Safari 3.1, Opera 9.5  , Firefox 3, Amaya 10.0 , Flock 2, Chrome 1, Amaya 11.0 

2009 Internet Explorer 8, Chrome 2, Safari 4, Opera 10  , Chrome 3, SeaMonkey 2, Camino 2, Firefox 3.5

2010 Firefox 3.6, Chrome 4 through Chrome 8, Opera 10.50  , Safari 5, Opera 11

2011 Chrome 9

•Browser•	•Creator•
Amaya	W3C, INRIA
AOL Explorer	America Online, Inc
Arora	Benjamin C. Meyer
Avant	Avant Force
Camino	The Camino Project
Chromium	Google
Dillo	Jorge Arellano Cid, Geerken, Rota, et al.
DocZilla	CiTEC
ELinks	Baudis, Fonseca, et al.
Epiphany	GNOME
Flock	Flock Inc
Galeon	Marco Pesenti Gritti
Google Chrome	Google
GNU IceCat	GNU
iCab	Alexander Clauss
Internet Explorer	Microsoft Spyglass
Internet Explorer for Mac (Terminated)	Microsoft
K-Meleon	Dorian, KKO, et al.
Konqueror	KDE
Links	Patocka, et al.
Lunascape	Lunascape Corporation
Lynx	Montulli, Grobe, Rezac, et al.
Maxthon	Maxthon International Limited
Midori	Christian Dywan, et al.
Mosaic	Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina, NCSA
Mozilla	Mozilla Foundation
Mozilla Firefox	Mozilla Foundation
Netscape (v.6-7)	Netscape Communications Corporation, AOL
Netscape Browser (v.8)	Mercurial Communications for AOL
Netscape Communicator (v.4)	Netscape Communications
Netscape Navigator (v.1-4)	Netscape Communications
Netscape Navigator 9	Netscape Communications (division of AOL)
NetSurf	The NetSurf Developers
OmniWeb	The Omni Group
Opera	Opera Software
Opera Mobile	Opera Software
Origyn Web Browser	Sand-labs
Safari	Apple Inc.
SeaMonkey	SeaMonkey Council
Shiira	Happy Macintosh Developing Team
Sleipnir	Fenrir Inc.
WorldWideWeb (Later renamed Nexus)	Tim Berners-Lee
w3m	Akinori Ito

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