Web Browsers OpenFAQ
What is a web browser?
Contributors:
What's a browser do?
A web browser is a program which is used to visit web
pages. The two most well-known web browsers are Netscape
Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer, which are used
by the vast majority. Other browsers are available
as well.
Chances are, you're using a web browser to read this
document right now, unless you're reading a printout, or
an excerpt in a book, or a text file.
A Little History
The very first web browser was written by Tim Berners-Lee,
while at CERN (a European center for physics research).
The first web browser to capture the public's imagination
was Mosaic, which was written by Marc Andreessen and other
undergraduate students at the National Center for
Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) in the United States.
Most of that group went on to form the core of
Netscape Communications Corporation.
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