The history of the Web Browser

The first ever web browser was invented in 1991 by a British man named Tim Berners-Lee. He named this browser the WorldWideWeb and it allowed computer users worldwide to access many different websites letting them do different things. Tim Berners-Lee came up with the original idea whilst working at CERN and, using an original idea of his, called hypertext and adding that to a recent invention of his, he was able to create the first web browser: The WorldWide Web. The idea became a reality in 1991 when he created the web browser in the CERN facilities in Geneva, Switzerland, and the first ever web page was posted on the 6th of August 1991 and the web address was named http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html and this directed the user to a website about Tim Berner-Lee's new invention. The world wide web    
           Tim Berners-Lee
  
    The first ever website


Although the WorldWideWeb was a great invention and completely changed the world of technology, it wasn't the first commercially successful web browser as many people were not familiar with the new technology and weren't sure how to use it or what it was used for. But, over time, the understanding for the web browser increased and when Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina teamed up to create a new web browser, the understanding of the technology was more advanced so more people used it because they knew what to do with it, this made it the first commercially successful web browser. Marc Andreessen's web browser was called Mosaic which was originally designed for Unix's x Window system called xmosaic, but it was later programmed to work with Windows and Macintosh. Mosaic was first developed and released in December 1992 and version 1.0 (released after versions 0.1-0.9) was released in April 1993, and version 2.0 was compatible with Windows and Macintosh in December 1993. There were also other web browsers being invented in around the same period, such as Cello, Erwise and MidasWWW but they were nothing compared to Mosaic, which was much more popular than all it's competitors. Many sources also say that "Mosaic was the web browser which led to the internet boom of the 1990's"


The homepage of the Mosaic web page                          Marc Andreessen